Is Earth really exceptional?  A new book seems to reaffirm that notion.  But given the right conditions, primitive life may be a mere byproduct of biophysics.

I began a strange and wobbly effort to write a book I tentatively called The Unauthorized Autobiography of Jesus Christ. It ...

In total, the Dune series spans about 16,000 years, making it a particularly difficult story to parse if you’re dipping in ...

The Handmaid's Tale' author and literary icon Margaret Atwood's long-awaited memoir, 'Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts,' is ...

Scientists also declared several other extinctions, including the first documented plant extinction in New Hampshire.

As more and more "historical" checklists are added to the platform, birds we've lost now mingle with those still hanging on.

Two new novels riff on fairy tales to explore mothers with unusual hungers and daughters trying to survive them.

University Press of Kentucky plans to release a revised, third edition of 'Trapped! The Story of Floyd Collins' by the late historian Robert K. Murray and renowned cave explorer Roger W. Brucker, on ...

This fantastic two-minute video, from a guy named Rich, neatly explains why the anger and frustration of Trump’s supporter ...

As the British journalist Dorian Lynskey relates in his erudite, delightfully witty, and strangely cheering new book, ...

Today, I’m talking with Andy Hunter, the CEO of Bookshop.org. Bookshop, at its core, is a website that lets local bookshops ...

Approximately 66 million years ago, a catastrophic event occurred that reshaped life on Earth in dramatic ways: the K-T extinction event. Named after the boundary between the Cretaceous (K) and ...