Wildlife Photographer of the Year has launched its sixty-second competition, calling for entries from photographers across the globe of all nationalities, backgrounds and experience levels.

Thrift shops are known for selling second-hand items, but there are some hidden gems under those piles of stuff. People have spotted valuable finds, from an 1823 edition of the Declaration of ...

Through her groundbreaking work with chimps in Africa, Goodall helped people understand that animals are sentient and ...

Reasons to be Cheerful reports on Brightworks, a no-curriculum, no-teachers school in San Francisco fostering creativity and ...

Doo” (2002), 6 p.m., Liberty Hall Little Theater, 644 Massachusetts St. See liberty-hall.com for tickets. Lawrence Arts ...

Almost eight decades after Colin Wyatt stole and then vandalized thousands of precious Australian butterfly specimens, ...

Today in History for Oct. 21: In 1555, Queen Mary of England launched a persecution campaign against Protestants that resulted in the deaths of more than 200 people.

The British Museum hosts its inaugural fundraising ball on Saturday, a glitzy event that has been touted by many observers as ...

The touring exhibition from the FIFA Museum will coincide with the FIFA World Cup 26TM in Vancouver. Soccer & Technology From ...

From mysterious gears to precision tools, the British Museum holds artifacts that don’t quite fit the timeline. Are these traces of lost engineering—or are we missing something?

The Science Museum reopens its star attraction. Any kid who ever went to London's Science Museum — going generations back — remembers two things: the shop, and the space gallery. The latter closed ...

As public purse strings tighten, major U.K. museums are racing to outdo each other with ever more splashy fundraising schemes. The British Museum is the latest to turn heads this week with the ...