Studies on the neurons of mice suggest our own human endurance may have more to do with the brain than our physique. Regular exercise strengthens muscles and improves endurance—but new research ...

Young elephants have a lot to learn—what to eat, what to avoid, how to behave around others. When they grow up around their mother and aunts, their development into well-behaved adults may seem ...

In a remote rural village, a health worker wades through piles of papers trying to find the records for a mother and baby with no medical ID. Without this crucial reference, treatment may not be ...

There’s good reason why Rwanda goes by the poetic nickname ‘The Land of a Thousand Hills’. This tropical country might be tiny — just a 10th of the size of the UK — but it’s blessed with a rampant ...

As traditional arts like blacksmithing and glassblowing decline, artisans at this theme park in the heart of the Smoky Mountains connect millions of visitors to age-old skills shaped by hand, fire, ...

City surveyors in Melbourne Beach, Florida, heard an unusual chirping under a road on Feb. 9 while doing routine work, and thought it could be coming from rats. Instead, they discovered a 7-foot-long ...

FLOREANA ISLAND, ECUADOR — Nine men walk single file like an army, marching uphill and under the equatorial sun with hundred-pound plastic crates strapped to their backs. When they finally crest the ...

Time travel is real. Except you don’t need some elaborate technological contraption to do it. You just need a horse and Florida wilderness. This past January, nearly 300 people and 300 head of cattle ...

Sleeper sharks live extraordinarily long lives and can thrive in near-freezing ocean temperatures near Earth's poles. Scientists with the Minderoo-UWA Deep-Sea Research Centre captured footage of a ...

Two hours west of New Orleans, the town of Opelousas is one of the best places to experience this irresistibly toe-tapping music genre created by Louisiana’s Black Creole community. Zydeco, a music ...