We deposit eight million metric tons of plastic ocean pollution annually—see how artists teamed up with scientists to address this environmental crisis.

A look at mythic themes in Kendrick Lamar's recent #1 album To Pimp a Butterfly.

Since so few do falconry in the U.S. today, and hawking hasn't made it to the wide world of TV sports, some background is probably in order here.

A lesbian couple from New Jersey now find their most intimate decisions at the center of a precedent-setting appeal about sperm donor visitation rights.

Picasso's "Femmes d'Alger" is set to take the record for most expensive painting ever sold.

Sweet Briar College's decision to shut its doors has put a spotlight on the decline of women's colleges.

More on internet neologisms: pairing together a (negative) mood word with a verb to produce a semi-productive compound.

Dawn spacecraft's mission to Ceres is made possible by a brand new ion engine that runs off individual atoms.

Records of excavations from before the current conflict with ISIS in Iraq can give us an idea of the former grandeur of Nimrud and Hatra.

A brief communication is revealing window into the life of thinker W. E. B. Du Bois.