The great abstract artist's paintings are spiritual symphonies that reveal hidden truths and speak directly to our senses and feelings...

Mass genome sequencing reveals avian family tree -- and how imitative birdsong gives birds genetic similarities to humans...

Biographer Scott Saul talks about spending eight years studying Pryor and why he never got bored, why Pryor is still electrifying, and what he would have thought of Bill Cosby...

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On the back porch of a country house on an autumn evening in 1977, a ponytailed blond girl named Ellie explains what she thinks the “revolution” of the 1960s was all about. “Well, it was against, um, what’s-his-name, Nixon,” she says. “And it was… fun. And usually held outdoors.”...

And on a new reissue, it sounds better than ever...

It was 1 a.m. on a Saturday when the call came. A friend, a University of Virginia freshman who earlier said she had a date that evening with a handsome junior from her chemistry class, was in hysterics. Something bad had happened...

More than 3.5 billion years ago, a meteor slammed into Mars near its equator, carving a 96-mile depression now known as Gale Crater...

It took more than a dozen years for the Afghan and NATO forces to really understand each other, but all that will soon be history...

Video game competitions, also known as e-sports, have taken off on campuses across the country, including Harvard and Florida State University. More than 10,000 students now play in the biggest college league, 4,400 more than last year and 4,600 more than the number of men who play on Division I college basketball teams...