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 ...

Which material was popularized in ancient Egypt (and later used by Greece and the Roman Empire) for writing books and other ...

As The Tell continues to dominate the New York Times bestseller list, how should we think about the less-than-legal therapy that inspired it and the splashy, concerning revelations that came next? A ...

Author Martha Wiley and illustrator Michelle Mirakian make science fun with their "Kids on the Move" book series, teaching physics through stories and hands-on experiments.