Habitat loss and the spread of Africanized bees in Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula threaten the Maya tradition of stingless beekeeping.

The beer and bonfires of the Midsummer Festival are part of an ancient tradition of partying on the solstice.

They're called sports fanatics for a reason, and researchers are striving to decode the fan psychology that can trigger mob mayhem.

What's daily life like in one of Africa's most dangerous regions? Photographer and aid worker Hélène Caux discusses the crisis in Sudan.

South Dakota is full of fossils of swimming and flying reptiles. Did they inspire Indian stories about a battle between water monsters and thunderbirds?

Adapting a 40-year-old sci-fi novel, Orson Welles's 1938 radio broadcast of War of the Worlds convinced Americans that New York was under attack by Martians.

The premiere of Jaws 30 years ago had a mixed impact on great white sharks. Publicly vilified, the predators also drew more scientific scrutiny.

New Zealand's flightless moa grew much more slowly than modern birds, scientists say. Is that why humans were able to hunt it to extinction?

Residents of one small Alabama city hope to turn an abandoned textile mill into a showcase of economic redevelopment.

Now in his sixties, FBI agent Joe Pistone talks about his undercover life inside the Mafia in the 1970s—the subject of a new TV documentary.

First impressions count—especially in politics, according to new research that suggests many U.S. voters favor candidates with "competent-looking" faces.

A rare paper trail traces the life story of a ten-year-old girl kidnapped in Africa 250 years ago and sold into slavery in South Carolina.

Future senior citizens in developed countries may live "younger" and retire later, averting a pension crisis, a new study says.

Rampant logging and bush-meat hunting is slowly eroding the traditional lifestyle of the Bayaka Pygmies in Central Africa, observers say.

Scientists have found a way to tell a dinosaur's gender after studying the fossils of a T. rex. The discovery may further link dinosaurs to birds.