A hand-painted show card evokes a certain nostalgia and humanity that machine-made signs can never arouse: It suggests honesty.

Alexis Soyer frequently cooked for royalty and dignitaries, but also displayed a healthy social conscience.

Giant snail farming may be the only hope to save an endangered gorilla species in Cameroon.

At the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Vint Cerf warned about an impending "digital dark age."

The ubiquitous Christmas tree has a history, and it isn't biblical.

Guglielmo Marconi successfully made the first transatlantic radio transmission on December 12, 1901.

Researchers writing in Marine Mammal Science report that California blue whale populations have rebounded from losses inflicted by whaling.