The material on the covers of books from a French abbey was too hairy to have come from calves or other local mammals.

The books hail from Clairvaux Abbey, founded in 1115 by Cistercian monks in northern France, and its daughter monasteries. Some tomes are nearly 900 years old. Researchers had thought they were ...

The student in a lab today may one day shape public policy, develop treatments or discover the next lifesaving cure.

Textbooks appear to be a battleground for some local school boards. In Wilson County, a school board member claimed a book ...

A number of books out this week — a tale of tribal politics, a close-focus mystery, measured criticism and a unique ...