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Meet some of the troupes taking an ancient tradition to new heights.

Researchers determined that the pachyderms fare just fine when they sail suspended from a helicopter.

One devoted Englishman accumulated hundreds of historic baby carriages.

It was likely the country's first cake made with cacao.

Low-cost seismometers could give rural communities an alert system, or begin to decipher elephant communication.

History and legend collide in the story of one seriously suggestive sweet.

Meet Podokesaurus holyokensis, a prehistoric resident of the Commonwealth.

Trace fossils are useful paleontological allies—but they can't tell us everything.

Across the eastern United States, a marvel of nature in the form of billions of loud, flying, mating insects.

Years of war produced these unusual souvenirs.

And what does it have to do with lawyering?

It’s delicious, cherished, and difficult to commercialize. These entrepreneurs are bringing it to the United States.

Meet a duo on the hunt for remains of demolished rowhouses.

How Chiso, a relatively obscure Japanese textile firm, keeps an age-old craft fresh.

Vintage rail cars hide in plain sight on the Isle of Wight.

And the "gentleman" doctors who made them.

Metal phalluses and vulvas were thought to protect against disease.

Technically, spaghetti and meatballs is bad grammar.