Santa Barbara's oldest Italian restaurant has a secret, invite-only bocce game.

As a researcher, I still remember the discomfort I felt every time I had to sacrifice laboratory animals for an experiment.

Those bizarre sea creatures that light up like carnival rides are actually ctenophores, which have an ancient brainlike structure.

There have been many questions about what direction Arduino would take after being bought by Qualcomm. Now it would seem that we’re getting a clearer picture. Perhaps unsurprisingly the ...

Sometimes the most magical art appears in the most unexpected places.

The platypus is one of nature’s strangest mammals. This egg-laying animal sweats milk, hunts by sensing electrical signals, carries venomous spurs, and even glows under ultraviolet light. Discover the ...

Armadillos are making North Carolina their home. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with wildlife biologist Colleen Olfenbuttel about how Texas' state mammal has gotten a foothold in the Tar Heel State.

If you think about it, you can’t be sure that what you see for the color red, for example, is what anyone else in the world actually sees. All you can be sure of is that we’ve all been ...