High-quality polarized sunglasses use an embedded filter—it works like a built-in Venetian blind—to block horizontal rays, thereby subduing the piercing glare of sunlight reflecting off water ...

The trek had begun at nearly sea level, and he’d been ascending with a merciless steadiness, the air thinning and his nose sometimes ... —“high points piercing the horizon line,” as ...

Wear patterns on the teeth of skeletons found in Central Europe suggest children as young as 6 may have been wearing labrets ...

A tonne of trash music came out of the aughts, but Eminem, Fergie and James Blunt made our critics' list of the worst offenders of the decade.

What happens when the biodiversity witnessed by one generation fades into memory the next? These questions are crossroads at ...

The film focuses on a series of hunger strikes organized by those incarcerated at California’s Pelican Bay State Prison, in protest of conditions in highest-security prisons. By Alissa Wilkinson ...