In the game of war, there are no winners, no losers, only casualties. Both unsettling and tender is Franz Böhm’s ...

Two new studies into lizard colors reveal how one species maintains its colorful diversity while others are losing their ...

Three near-identical U.S. lizards have kept their identities for millions of years in a way that researchers compare to the ...

Side-blotched lizards probably don’t call the game that, but they play a version of it anyway. A new study explains the ...

Its driving physics are chaotically arcadey, and I spent hours zooming over big heaps of snow with a towering pile of ...

“Any viewer’s tongue will grow shorter trying to describe it,” marveled the inveterate traveler Ibn Battuta while visiting Jerusalem in 1326. “This is one of the most fantastic of all buildings, of ...

RPS Advent Calendar voting remains an esoteric and mercurial process, even to those of us who practice in it. If two games ...

Rock-paper-scissors is usually a game of psychology, reverse psychology, reverse-reverse psychology, and chance. But what if a computer could understand you well enough to win every time? A team at ...

Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia, and Cosimo de Medici were among her admirers. Poets compared her art to Michelangelo’s. Seventeenth-century Dutch textile and paper cutting artist Joanna Koerten was ...

Lesley Suter is the ASME- and James Beard Award-winning Special Projects director at Eater, where she oversees commerce, editorial packages, and other coordinated efforts across the network. The ...

No one really thinks about scissors. When you need a pair—and everyone always needs one—you probably root around in a drawer. And while using them, you probably think, “Have these scissors always been ...

Would you spend hundreds of dollars on a nondescript rock? All over TikTok, people are pranking their partners by saying they did just that. The trend originated when creator Phoebe Adams, on Sept. 14 ...