European blackbirds can give pitch-perfect renditions of urban noises, even copying the annoying sound of a golf cart backing up at a golf course.
A stream of archaeological discoveries is dramatically pushing back the dates of objects that were surely shaped by the hand of early man.
The shape of the brain may be critical to the causes of such mental disorders as schizophrenia and autism.
There's the devil to pay when a church gets stuck with a Modernist masterpiece.
The Eiffel Tower, now the iconic symbol of Paris, was despised at first for being too American.
The Bolsa Família program is helping impoverished Brazilians improve their lives.
Stamping out piracy in the Gulf of Aden is not as simple as sending in more warships.
Americans think the Chinese are nationalistic, authoritarian, conformist, and deferential. All of those presumptions are wrong.
An art historian considers the accomplishments of Marc Chagall, perhaps the most famous Jewish artist of the 20th century, but one whose best work was already behind him by the end of World War I.
The notion that all young people are technological whiz kids is flawed, says a UVA media studies professor. "Every class has a handful of people with amazing skills and a large number who can't deal with computers at all."