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The "Friends of Sam Birch" plant dozens of bean varieties each year.

It’s like another Louisiana Purchase.

Svalbard bids goodbye to dark season with an exotic “Fruit Party.”

More than 20 species of these winged mammals construct tiny leaf homes with climate control and built-in security alarms.

Get a peek into what we’re obsessed with right now.

Self-taught astronomer, Joe Guzman has been educating Chicago residents about space for decades.

As an undercover investigator, Rose Mackenberg unmasked hundreds of America’s fake psychics.

Plagues, war, and genocide were literally frozen in time.

Soyer Au Champagne is one of the legacies of Alexis Soyer, the first—and most ambitious—celebrity chef of the 1800s.

From rodents of unusual size to flaming arrows, communities across North America share solar eclipse traditions.

Back when killer whales used to assist humans.

This fall, we're offering a stunning, all-new guide to the world's living wonders.

Total solar eclipses were an omen of death for rulers of the Assyrian Empire. The fix? Install a fake king and then kill him.

An Aboriginal woman from northwest Tasmania, Tarenorerer became one of the war's most feared soldiers.

Would you recognize what can only be heard but not seen?

"In-ovo sexing" would revolutionize the chicken industry, but consumers have to want it first.

Two Victorian academics believed they saw Marie Antoinette at Versailles.

The Sun's dazzlingly bright photosphere makes it impossible to study the corona—unless the Moon is in the way.