“A Little Queer Natural History” is a smart book, perfect for quick reads at random at this busy time of year. If that’s what ...

In his essay for The Yale Review, cartoonist Chris Ware (Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth, Building Stories, and the Acme Novelty Library) examines Richard Scarry's evolu ...

Research led by Dr. Gray Atherton and Dr. Liam Cross, from the University of Plymouth’s School of Psychology, found that ...

Pony Confidential” by Christina Lynch features a pony who observes and comments knowingly on the foibles of the humans in its ...

The short-term rental giant will help pay for the Colosseum Archaeological Park’s educational programs in exchange for use of ...

Marveling at fish that build, speeding wombats and other wonders of the animal world.

In Tal Danino’s “Beautiful Bacteria” (Rizzoli Electa, 184 pages, $50), science and art meet in a revolutionary new way. Mr. Danino has “programmed” bacteria to grow artistically—teaching some to glow ...

However, dinosaurs were only established as a group in the 1840s and no one was yet thinking about dinosaur eggs. As this specimen is filled with beautiful purple and white layers of the mineral agate ...

Cytosine base editing is crucial for modeling human diseases in zebrafish. Here, the authors present zevoCDA1 and zevoCDA1-198, optimized editors that improve editing efficiency and precision ...

Jamie Cook, 27, is sentenced to 16 weeks in jail and banned from owning a dog for 10 years. Greater Manchester Police have warned a group "not to take matters into their own hands". People are ...

Although the Japanese river otter is not in paintings, the 1824 book Buko Sanbutsu Shi (List of Animals and Plants Found in ...

The acclaimed Japanese magic realist (“Norwegian Wood,” “Kafka on the Shore”) is back with his first book in six years. It opens on a pair of teens in love. The girl disappears and the man ...