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The project aims to make a complete 'bee atlas,' detailing every single local pollinator.

Cacen gneifo was a traditional gift for farmhands during wool-gathering season.

A number of factors cause you to be lighter or heavier in different parts of the world.

Plus: Our definitive guide to the world’s extraordinary sights.

For millennia, this cosmological principle guided everything from calendars to urban planning.

Ever wondered why our brains crave a good scare?

For these researchers in Southern Africa, tagging the apex predators starts with putting them in trancelike tonic immobility.

This "exquisite" recipe comes from the book that created our modern concept of Italian food.

A sweet archive of almost biblical proportions can be found at the University of California, Riverside.

Peranakan cuisine is a feast of complexity.

And wearing them onstage adds another tale to each timepiece.

The surprising story of how Spanish, baseball, and arroz cubano came to permeate some desert camps in Africa.

Preserved in the lake's chilly waters for more than 200 years, the Spitfire now faces a new threat.

Learn more about orienteering, the sport that forces you to navigate with just old-fashioned maps and compasses—no GPS allowed.

For 30 years, this labyrinthine treasure hunt has had thousands of players cracking codes and digging up the French countryside. After a sudden death and bitter disputes, will the prize ever be found?

Volunteers have been finding, excavating, removing, and sometimes even defusing bombs.

Much of Asia seems to be riddled onto the Lord of the Rings map of Middle Earth.