Scott Kelly has returned from a year in orbit. How has he fared? Turns out space flight really does do a number on the body.

The role of the First Lady is undefined and dependent on the woman in the role, but it's a politically fraught one for all of them. 

Chess and artificial intelligence have been matched almost since the beginning of AI research, but now there's a new game in town. 

Can images make us love an unlovable place like Antarctica?

Should the term curator be used broadly or narrowly? Can it cover professional museum curators as well as Pinterest boards?

The U.S. Department of Education now recognizes biliteracy as a mark of educational excellence, which may mean that bilingual education is coming back.

So why are chimpanzee throwing rocks at trees? And then collecting the rocks in piles to use again?

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Pluto might not be a planet, but the results of the New Horizons mission flyby tell it is still a pretty cool place. And cold!

For centuries, the Caucasus was to the Russian Empire what the Middle East was to the British and French: a savage land to be dominated and a romanticized Other against which Russia could define its own “European” identity.