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The digitization of Charles Darwin's scientific archive is half completed. When it's finished, the project will allow researchers and anyone who's curious to follow the steps that brought the 19th-century naturalist to formulate his evolutionary theory.
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Earlier this year, the New York Times reported that arrests on New York's subways were up 300% over 2013, the result of police commissioner Bill Bratton's zealous focus on the transit system as part of his approach to policing the city.
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A major art commission in Houston has been suddenly placed on hold, prompting the resignation of a director at the Houston Arts Alliance (HAA) and causing an outcry in the city's art community, the Houston Chronicle reported.
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New video and testimony has emerged of Yazidis who have returned to the village of Babila (also known as Babira and Babirah), which was occupied and devastated by the Islamic State. It documents the community's resumption of its life amidst the ruins of two temples.
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New York City has unveiled a plan to replace its 7,302 pay phones with wireless internet hubs that will offer amenities including free Wi-Fi, free domestic phone calls, USB chargers, and, naturally, advertising space that is projected to generate enough revenue to not only pay for the ambitious proj
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Rather than the usual parties and celebratory parades, many Mexicans marked Revolution Day last Thursday by protesting the massacre of 43 students from Ayotzinapa in a vividly symbolic way: burning effigies of their leaders.
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This week in art news: The Tate recreated two paintings in Minecraft, the Whitney Museum's new building has an opening date, and "Whistler's Mother" is traveling to the United States.
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A new bipartisan bill aims to sharpen the United States' response to looting in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, and other countries impacted by war, political instability, or natural disaster.
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Baltimore's McKeldin Fountain, a fixture of the city's inner harbor since water started cascading down its tiered basins in 1982, may soon be demolished.
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Paris's Musée des Lettres et Manuscrits (MLM), an institution devoted to ancient manuscripts and historic letters, was raided by French authorities on Tuesday for its apparent role in a fraudulent investment scheme masterminded by the museum's founder, financier Gérard Lhéritier.
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Archaeologists have unsealed a 1,000-year-old brick tomb in northern China containing unusually well-preserved murals of heavenly and earthly scenes.
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A group of prominent Norwegian architects who have long opposed the Norway's new national museum building are now speaking out to save the original National Gallery, which dates to 1842.