Once plentiful, chestnuts were virtually extirpated from the forests of eastern North America by WWII.

The 2014 Presidential Green Chemistry Award winners discover new strategies for pollution prevention.

Florence Foster Jenkins, the legendary diva of awfulness, known as the world's worst opera singer.

What is the anthropocene?

Recent findings narrow the period in which both Neanderthals and modern humans existed together.

How FedEx's data-driven approach paved the way for Amazon.

Will the 11-hour work day become a reality?

Despite being such conspicuous animals, researchers still know surprisingly little about giraffes.

A look back on Nellie Bly and the era of "stunt-reporting."

In spring 1920, three men disembarked from a train in a high desert town. They had come on behalf of their friend Anson Mills, who had asked them to find his brother's grave.