The introduction of the electric refrigerator in 1929 spelled the end of most annual ice harvests, but not allas a town in upstate New York demonstrates each year.
Medieval manuscripts "behave" like organisms, concludes one researcher who applied population biology theory to calculate the survival rate of ancient texts.
The European Union government now has 20 official languages, and its annual translation costs are set to rise to 1.3 billion dollars (U.S.). Is the body becoming burdened by multilingualism?
This Black History Month we examine the current candlepower of the book that helped ignite the Civil War. Is its influence still incendiaryor burned out?
When a boy's torso was found in London, police had no idea who he was or why he was killed. Forensic science, though, uncovered clues to his macabre murder.
In February 2005, National Geographic News reported that disappearing marshlands were making the U.S. Gulf Coast vulnerable to flooding and severe hurricane damage.
Climate change, sprawl, and alien-species invasion are threatening South Africa's fynbos, the main vegetation type of the smallest, yet richest, of the world's six floral kingdoms.