A new graphic novel version of 'Watership Down' aims to temper darkness with hope
The children's classic Watership Down began life one summer's day in the mid-1960s. Richard Adams, a...
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Where did 20,000 Jews hide from the Holocaust? In Shanghai
In the late 1930s, as the Nazis stepped up their persecution of German and Austrian Jews, many count...
This artist stayed figurative when art went abstract — he's finally recognized, at 99
In the 1950s, Jonah Kinigstein was on the verge of making it big in New York's art world. He won a F...
This artist gets up to her neck in water to spread awareness of climate change
Sarah Cameron Sunde, an interdisciplinary artist, was visiting Maine in 2013 when she noticed someth...
Professional landscapers are reluctant to plug into electric mowers due to cost
SCARSDALE, N.Y. — Electric lawn mowers have taken the U.S. consumer market by storm over the past fe...
What does a black hole sound like? NASA has an answer
For the first time in history, earthlings can hear what a black hole sounds like: a low-pitched groa...
We never got good at recycling plastic. Some states are trying a new approach
After recycling's failure to appreciably reduce the amount of plastic the U.S. throws away, some sta...