For 30 years, Henrietta Swan Leavitt flooded notebooks with meticulous data nested inside hand-drawn tables. She and her fellow female “Harvard computers” earned 25 cents an hour to track the ...

It never ceases to amaze me how intelligent birds are, specifically the vocal Parrot species who pick up words, phrases, and even songs like it's no big deal. Ten-year-old Cockatoo Sophie is among ...

If you think “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star” is just for kids’ windup toys, think again. Ernst von Dohnányi gives it the full ...