Have you ever wondered about the “smooth as silk” yet uniquely comforting voice behind NATURE’s historical underwriting spots and credits? Peter Thomas, a renowned television and radio voice-over artist, was one ...

Young children may be the most curious creatures on the planet. Whether they are following up the question they asked with another question (Why?) or seeing what exactly is under that rock, kids are constantly investigating ...

Our friends at member station KQED in San Franciso are back with a new installment of Deep Look, an ultra-high defintion video series that “explores big scientific mysteries by going incredibly small”. In ...

Which dinosaur was the biggest and heaviest? T-Rex, triceratops, the mighty brontosaurus? Actually, these famous dinos aren’t even in the same ballpark as the top heavyweight contenders, which may have weighed as much ...

  Editor’s note: The kangal (pronounced khan-ghahl) is a breed of large livestock guarding dog originating from the city of Sivas in central Turkey. The breed is not used for herding, but to defend flocks of sheep ...

Bird lovers in New York City’s borough of Brooklyn are going nuts over a brightly-colored visitor from the South. A male painted bunting (Passerina ciris), a member of the cardinal family, was spotted in Brooklyn’s ...

Which came first: the kiwi or the kiwifruit? Was the bird named for the fruit or the fruit named for the bird? As it turns out, it was the latter. In the 1950s, commercial growers of the “Chinese gooseberry” noticed ...

Soaring, majestic swells of dark blue raged toward the shore. The breeze was cool. Winter was finally coming to an end. Nearly all of the snow had gone, except on the mountain peaks. The forest and hills were cloaked ...