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Scientists are befuddled by where the shark gets most of its food.

A study finds a link between intolerant attitudes among some Americans and support for anti-democratic measures and army rule.

Sudan leaves behind only two other northern white rhinos, but artificial reproductive technologies could provide a future for the subspecies.

Artists such as Glenn Ligon still look to comedian Richard Pryor to make sense of the African-American experience.

More than 20 years ago, the sitcom Seinfeld went “meta” and joked that it was “a show about nothing.” But 20 years before George Costanza’s epiphany, artist Richard Tuttle was staging shows about nothing featuring works such as Wire Piece (detail shown above) — a piece of florist wire nailed at either end to a wall marked with a penciled line. But, as Jerry concludes, there’s “something” in that “nothing.” A new retrospective of Tuttle’s art at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia, Both/And: Richard Tuttle Print and Cloth, dives into the depths, and widths, of this difficultly philosophical, yet compellingly simple artist who takes the everyday nothings of line, paper, and cloth to create extraordinary statements about the need to be mindful of the artful world all around us.

"The extasy [sic] of abstract beauty," artist Richard Pousette-Dart scrawled in 1981 in a notebook on a page across from a Georges Braque-looking abstract pencil drawing. Although included in Nina Leen’s iconic 1951 Life magazine photo "The Irascibles" that featured Abstract Expressionist heavyweights Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, and Barnett Newman, Pousette-Dart has always stood on the edges, as he does in the photo, of full identification with that group.

Michael Jackson proudly wore the crown as the “King of Pop” until his death in 2009. In the visual arts, at least for Americans, Andy Warhol’s ruled as the “King […]

So, here’s the question for today: How should we respond when people we admire make serious missteps? Just so there’s no confusion, I want to say right up front that […]

Every May brings with it a new crop of college graduation speeches. This spring, few (maybe none) were as though-provoking as multimedia artist Laurie Anderson’s at the School of Visual […]

This summer at The Phillips Collection there’s a different kind of colorblindness going on. White is the “new black,” or at least the color telling the most interesting stories in […]

“Let me go and I’ll tell you who shot that white kid.”

The questions about which massive structures to build, and where, are actually very hard to answer. Infrastructure is always about the future: It takes years to construct, and lasts for years beyond that.

The quantum world — and its inherent uncertainty — defies our ability to describe it in words.

Albert Einstein played a mean violin.

A Carrington-magnitude event would kill millions, and cause trillions of dollars in damage. Sadly, it isn't even the worst-case scenario.

Salt causes a dehydration-like state that encourages the conversion of the starch in the french fry to fructose.

Break into London Zoo? Illegal, but it would improve the London Circle Walk

NASA was dangerously cavalier about the dangers of the shuttle launches.

It might seem like science and faith are at war, but the two have a historical synergy that extends back in time for centuries.

1859's Carrington event gave us a preview of how catastrophic the Sun could be for humanity. But it could get even worse than we imagined.

In terms of sheer productivity, “-gate” has no peer. Wikipedia’s list of -gates has over 260 entries.

For centuries, men prevented women from writing music. These classical composers broke with social norms and made their mark on history.

Robinson v. California helped to established a rehabilitative ideal: addiction should be dealt with as a therapeutic matter.

From Brahms to Tchaikovsky, here's a curated list of composers whose music has shaped the classical canon.

Graphical user interfaces are how most of us interact with computers, from iPhones to laptops. But they were once condemned as making students lazy and destroying the art of writing.

George Washington, for example, was quite happy to engage in deception, if that deception would help protect the United States.

One particular revolution was so important, that at least one historian thinks the 20th century officially began in 1914 and ended in 1991.

For the fewer than 50 people with this blood type, finding a blood transfusion could be extremely difficult.

The same (former) NASA engineer who previously claimed to violate Newton's laws is now claiming to have made a warp bubble. He didn't.

Did the Milky Way form by slowly accreting matter or by devouring its neighboring galaxies? At last, we're uncovering our own history.