Mexican tetras are a most peculiar fish species. They occur in many rivers and lakes across Mexico and southern Texas, where ...

VISITING What to know: The museum is open seven days a week, except Dec. 25, between 10 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. Admission is free, and passes are not required. For more information, go to ...

A university choir has revived music found hiding in plain sight in a book from southern England's Buckland Abbey ...

The word “lewk” was added to Cambridge this year, three years after it was added to Merriam-Webster and more than a decade ...

The Iowa State Fair has featured a bovine butter sculpture for more than 100 years. Now, the tradition is part of the new ...

Researchers set out to investigate how streaked shearwaters take off and instead were surprised to discover that the birds ...

Sixty percent of miscarriages are caused by the failure of an embryo—the developmental stage before a fetus—to implant in the ...

During his lifetime, Crockett—who went by David, not Davy—shaped his own myth. In the 20th century, his legacy got a boost ...

Researchers are studying pollen grains for applications across medicine and engineering. Martin Siepmann/. At first glance, ...

Emily Barske Wood is an Iowa-based journalist. She works part-time as the special projects editor for the Des Moines Business Record, and her work has been published by the Guardian, the Poynter ...

Three of the four messages carved into the sculpture have been deciphered, but the final puzzle has left amateur sleuths ...

Hundreds of humanoids from 16 countries stumbled over each other while competing in the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing ...