Over the past year, developers at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology have been hard at work upgrading our entire database of tools, resources, and nearly one billion bird observations. As we near the end of this process it is necessary to take our se...

Music radio stations in France are locked in a battle with the government over laws that force them to play a certain number of French-language songs on the airwaves, with some now planning a day-lon…

Why the elephant and the donkey?

Doctors in a Scottish hospital discovered the source of a female patient's discomfort: a sex toy that had been stuck in her vagina for a decade.

The era of color-coded political parties is more recent than you might think

On the Il de Ré, donkeys wear pajamas in a century old tradition. These pointou donkeys are famous for their size, fluffy hair, and pants.

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Look back at the problem-plagued unveiling that park employees dubbed “Black Sunday.”

Saundra McBrearty, Outreach and Volunteer Specialist   Squirrels exist in nearly every habitat on Earth. There are 285 species scattered across the globe, ranging from the half-ounce pygmy tree squirrels of western Africa to the 20-pound gray marmots of Kazakhstan.…

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Recently a group of us went into our manunoscripts store to have a look at some medieval genealogical rolls. We were examining Royal MS 14 B V, an English roll from the last part of the 13th century that contains quite a lot of marginalia, when one of our post…

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On the world's shortest flights, you won't even have time to drop your tray table.

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Chloroform, or trichloromethane, is an organic compound with formula CHCl3. It is a colorless, strong-smelling, dense liquid that is produced on a large scale as a precursor to PTFE. It is also a precursor to various refrigerants. It is one of the four chloromethanes…

The Siege of Boston (April 19, 1775 – March 17, 1776) was the opening phase of the American Revolutionary War.New England militiamen prevented the movement by land of the British Army, which was garrisoned in what was then the peninsular city of Boston, Massachusetts…

This is why the MTV VMA statue is a Moonman, as told by the iconic trophy's creator.

If you were to turn your calendar to January 7th, you'd likely see the words "Christmas (Eastern Orthodox)" or something similar on that date. To those of you

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Happy 144th birthday, Orville Wright!