Ancient Egyptians' love of cats developed from an appreciation of their rodent-catching skills to revering them as sacred creatures.

Victor Hugo created visual art that was intuitive, experimental, and inspired by Spiritualism. In other words, nothing like his novel Les Misérables.

In the late 19th century, Elizabeth Campbell helped her astronomer husband run the Lick Observatory and lead scientific eclipse-viewing expeditions.

Citizen science involves using large numbers of volunteers to collect data for scientific research. But does it result in usable data?

The average student is bored about 1/3 of the time. But that might have more to do with the kids' temperaments than with school itself.

Why the Loch Ness Monster has a scientific binomial.

How the archetype of the quirky, brilliant tech entrepreneur whose ideas could change the world migrated from high-tech hacker culture to Wall Street.

Henri Matisse's odalisques, or reclining nude females, were inspired by trips to exotic French colonies. But what was the story outside the frame?

Remembering a strange chapter of history when Nantucket allied itself with Great Britain.

If you remember your grade-school reading log, the Nancy Drew mysteries are by Carolyn Keene. Only she never existed.