A century-long puzzle over how delicate strands of glistening ice burst through rotting tree branches, like heads of hair, is closer to being solved.

The quantity of social interactions a person has at 20—and the quality of friendships that person has at age 30—may increase well-being later in life.

As more families resemble my own, more parents are going to have to figure out how to talk to their kids about what it means to be mixed race. Here are a few things I've learned.

I suspect pandas may actually be people in panda suits.

There’s a reason why millions adore these furry exemplars of China’s “soft power”

Everything you need to know about a famous imaginary cat in a box.

We have a rare chance now, with many teachers near retirement, to prove we’re serious about education. The first step is to make the teaching profession more attractive to college graduates.

Vegetables and math? Every child's nightmare.

How to survive an ice age, a mass extinction, and a meteor strike—and live to tell about it.

Advice from a new banjo player on how to overcome the first obstacle of becoming a great player - buying your first instrument.

This episode of Top Gear is about the funniest bit of television I've seen.

Nature is often the inspiration for architecture and design. We've even seen our fair share of fully functional tree houses, but in South Africa there is an entirely unique, hollowed out tree called Sunland Big Baobab that has actually been conv ...

Rachel Sussman shows photographs of the world's oldest continuously living organisms -- from 2,000-year-old brain coral off Tobago's coast to an "underground forest" in South Africa that has lived since before the dawn of agricult ...

Transporting guinea pigs from point A to point B. Song by Parry Gripp

As their habitats give way to sprawling human developments, more and more animals are being forced into cities and suburbs.

I've never seen pandas move this fast before...

A trove of secret documents details the US government's global push for shale gas.

Watch how quickly these two transform from pink rats into miniature pandas