Miss Sam, a rhesus monkey, successfully flew onboard a Mercury test capsule to prove the effectiveness of the launch escape system.

Best known for her Black Beauty illustrations, Lucy Kemp-Welch left behind paintings depicting equine subjects of a bygone ...

Darwin wasn't the only scientist who thought females couldn't be promiscuous. Angus John Bateman had very similar ideas.

Ten years ago (give or take a few odd days), a curious, marmalade-loving bear named Paddington tumbled his way into theaters, ...

New research provides the first direct evidence of whether Australopithecus, an important early human ancestor, consumed meat ...

The Library of Michigan chooses books published the previous year that are about Michigan or the Great Lakes or are written ...

Scientists have just resurrected "ELIZA," the world's first chatbot, from long-lost computer code — and it still works ...

Three-million-year-old tools found in Kenya reveal early humans' ability to cut food, butcher meat, and adapt to new diets.

Doing his own camerawork, the director gleefully enriches the haunted-house genre with a simple but ingenious device.

David Lynch has died at 78. The filmmaker was celebrated for his uniquely dark vision in such movies as “Blue Velvet” and ...