If mistletoe's status as a nutrient-stealing freeloader has been cooling your holiday ardor, new research led by an Oregon ...

Leggy and sharp-eyed, Common Grackles (along with their larger, showier relatives, Great-tailed Grackles and Boat-tailed ...

Connect with nature by joining the season's most anticipated event: The Great Backyard Bird Count. It's easy, even if you're ...

The Fields of Mourning are a vast, open expanse filled with the wandering spirits of the dead. Rather than being composed of single rooms or areas like Erebus and Oceanus, the Fields of Mourning have ...

It was held by the English Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony and members of the Wampanoag Nation. The gathering was to celebrate the Pilgrims’ first successful corn harvest in the “New World,” which was ...

It’s no wonder that the heavens opened up and flooded the earth with tears when Rabbi Gilbert Kollin passed away on November 12, 2025, at the age of 91. He was like a cup of kindness. It was in his ...

The “Black Doves” are expanding. Season 2 of Netflix’s pulpy London spy thriller series — created by Joe Barton, led by Keira Knightley and also starring Ben Whishaw and Sarah Lancashire — is now in ...

Christmas is over and the Black Doves are getting back to work. Keira Knightley, Ben Whishaw and Sarah Lancashire are back for season two of Netflix’s spy drama and are joined by a slew of familiar ...

The country of Thailand has entered a nationwide year-long period of mourning out of respect for the recent passing of the country's queen mother, Her Majesty Queen Sirikit. The queen mother died last ...

Grief and mourning are similar, but grief is an internal experience, while mourning includes outward actions such as memorials, rituals, or cultural practices. While grief is involuntary, mourning ...

Duping a guppy is easier than duping a ring dove — at least when it comes to a classic optical illusion. In the Ebbinghaus illusion, two identical circles placed side by side are each framed by a set ...

Nearly eight months pregnant with her second child and barely able to get a guitar around her bulging belly, Caitlin Canty had a batch of new tunes born from major life changes like parenthood and ...