The original, “Eat an apple on going to bed and you’ll keep the doctor from earning his bread,” came from Wales. It took a ...

Look closely at living and dead trees to find evidence of even smaller neighbors. A fine, uniform, granular sawdust pushed from tiny holes in bark can indicate beetle larvae feces, or “frass.” A large ...

Nature writer Kumar (Conversations with Birds) explores the history and diversity of apples in this thorough mix of memoir and ecology. Growing up in northern India, Kumar started foraging for apples ...

Ozzy Osbourne said he "wouldn't change a thing" about his life, speaking in a poignant BBC documentary filmed before his ...

Investigators are unclear how the crocodile ended up out in the wild. In Hampton Township, it is illegal for reptiles “not ...

Find out more about the plethora of unique wildlife at the Everglades National Park, and find out if you know some of the ...

It proved a wise decision for a Texas man to brave a stormy downpour and move his truck, as a huge tree branch came toppling down next to his driveway seconds later. The close call was captured by ...

Apple had a lot of announcements this week, but arguably none was bigger (and paradoxically thinner) than the iPhone Air. For one, there’s the fact that this is Apple’s first-ever phone with “Air” ...

Concluding her series, Clare Foster discovers how Tom Brown, head gardener at West Dean College in Sussex, is growing an ...

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Archaeologists in the U.K. have uncovered a miscellany of everyday objects from the site of a house that was built for the mother of Isaac Newton in the 1650s. The house, which was demolished 200 ...