On the eve of the Lunar New Year, as brushstrokes bled into galloping ink horses and flower spirits appeared to breathe beneath the stage lights, China’s most-watched television event crossed a ...

When Maris Vavers picks up the phone, his voice comes through a little crackly. He’s on the road, where he’s spent much of the past couple months, cruising down I-5 in his rental SUV on a sunny ...

Pygmy sperm whales have a bizarre defense mechanism that is volatile, but highly effective in blinding and deterring predators.

James Gordon Brown spends his days – hours of them – walking up, down and around the hill behind his house in North Queensferry, Fife. Battered by winds from Inverkeithing Bay, he relives the old ...