Many superheroes wear capes. But Batman's imposing floor-length cloak is legendary. The twisting sheath not only adds to the Dark Knight's mystique but also transforms into a ri...

The second Monday in October has traditionally been known as Columbus Day in honor of the Italian explorer's "discovery" of the Americas on October 12, 1492.  However, the US fe...

La Palma, one of Spain's Canary Islands, has been feeling the wrath of the Cumbre Vieja volcano since September 19, 2021.  The explosive volcano, which came to life shortly afte...

A fish with the body of a shark and the face of a pig may sound like something straight out of a science fiction movie. But that precisely describes the dead shark retrieved fro...

Humans have flown to the Moon and may even make it to Mars. But providing clean water to all remains a challenge.  The World Health Organization estimates that one in three peop...

The school day had just ended at Isaac Dickson Elementary School in Asheville, North Carolina.  Most students had left, and the ones in the school's "supervised homework help" p...

One of the world's most iconic landmarks just got transformed into a work of art. From September 18 to  October 3, 2021, the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, France, will be embellishe...

The western false asphodel — an herb-like plant found in abundance along North America's West Coast —  has been known to science since 1879.  But it is only recently that resear...

After years of intense public pushback, the now-shuttered Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus finally announced the retirement of their Asian elephant performers in 2016. ...