Horses have been our steadfast companions for many major events. Here's how the domestication of the horse helped them shape ...

The Little Ice Age was a period of global cooling that began during around 1300 CE and lasted until about 1850. Average ...

Similarly, most living things produce records of their own existence in layered body tissues – often in the form of daily or ...

For Chinese communities around the world, Lunar New Year celebrations are currently focused on the Year of the Snake and its symbolic ...

The Champaran region in Bihar — known for being the launching ground for Mahatma Gandhi’s historic 1917 Civil Disobedience Movement — has another claim to fame: it is the birthplace of George Orwell, ...

The SPCA also says too many people are surrendering smaller critters like rabbits right outside the door of the animal shelter, leaving them in boxes fully exposed to the cold. They’re offering ...

Humans are causing enormous damage to the Earth, and about one million plant and animal species are now at risk of extinction. Keeping track of what’s left is vital to conserving biodiversity.

The animals that we now call sheep were domesticated around 10,500 years ago from wild Asiatic mouflon. These wild sheep grazed an area called the Fertile Crescent, which is also called the “the ...

A Georgian satirical ‘recipe’ for a rout questions how many ... When the sponge has cooled down, you can then cut out, and perhaps decorate, individual cakes with a shaped cutter of your choice.

White and grey coloured balls were found scattered along the shores at nine beaches in Sydney's north last week. (Nine) The balls that washed up in October were made up of similar products as ...

“We have a chance to shape a better future for children, one that every child deserves, but we need to start today,” says Bo Viktor Nylund, Director of UNICEF Innocenti. Children play at a ...

Instead of space-time’s three spatial dimensions and one of time, the physics of our world could be encoded into a set of odd geometrical shapes – and studying them may chart a new ...