Is fiction good for us? We spend huge chunks of our lives immersed in novels, films, TV shows, and other forms of fiction. Some see this as a positive thing, arguing that made-up stories cultivate our ...

To play this video you need to enable JavaScript. It makes our food tasty and our breath smelly, but what are some of the other uses of garlic...? Apart from warding off vampires, of course! Neil and ...

What birders well know, fans of “composite organisms” and other creatures can now learn: how to identify obscure species in the wild. By Robert Ito As told in Tarpley Hitt’s rollicking “Barbieland,” ...