Everything about the peacock, including its enormous tail, awkward body shape, and hefty size of up to 13 pounds, suggests a species poorly suited for flight. In fact, their elaborate tails account ...

With Thanksgiving here, let's talk turkey. You may be thinking that the most important question of the day is how to cook a turkey for your Thanksgiving meal. Do you roast, deep fry or smoke it? But ...

In 1872 Leland Stanford, the founder of California’s Stanford University, hired an eccentric inventor named Eadweard Muybridge to help resolve a supposed (but undocumented) bet: did a trotting horse’s ...