This National Geographic book is much more than a coffee table tome, although you could easily spend hours just poring over the photographs: black-and-white reproductions from Shackleton’s voyage, and ...

Intrinsic to Mr. Lynch’s persona were the smokes he took up in childhood (in some interviews, he claimed to have picked up the habit at age 8), which may have contributed to his death on ...

The spongy moth is a non-native insect from France ... making them more susceptible to pests and disease or causing tree death. Round goby is a highly invasive bottom-dwelling fish from Europe ...

The great Russian literary genius Alexander Pushkin dies on this day as a result of a duel. He is generally considered Russia’s great­est poet. Unlike many famous Euro­peans of color, Pushkin was ...

There are six stories in this comic: the aforementioned “Ageless Orientals” tale, “Trapped in the Nazi Stronghold,” “The Wax Statue That Struck Death,” “Short Circuit ... and Robin fight the Killer ...

After causing mayhem on the East Coast, the spongy creature has infiltrated parts of Northern and Southern California.

After the death of Peter Fenwick, a neuropsychiatrist who studied near-death experiences, readers shared stories of their own. Credit...Rachel Levit Ruiz Supported by By Michael S. Rosenwald In ...

With Elon Musk leading the way, racism, sexism, and all the other isms look to be heading back into the tech workplace. Save me from rich, white men who insist they and their kind are being ...