Mary Pearson, who was briefly engaged to the writer's brother, may be the real-life counterpart of Lydia Bennet from "Pride and Prejudice"

The show ran for just five days before the London museum closed due to COVID-19

The severity of this year's bleaching is second only to 2016, during which a third of the reef’s corals died

Ceramics artist Eny Lee Parker hosted a contest that asked quarantined creators to imagine their ideal rooms

The art within Shing Yin Khor's virtual world represents a sassy response to the game's built-in natural history museum

Select Andrew Lloyd Webber productions will stream on YouTube for 48 hours at a time

The bidet-like suite of devices detects abnormalities in feces that could flag signs of certain cancers

With many zoos and aquariums closed to the public, keepers let animals roam empty hallways to meet their neighbors

In the wild, only about one in 20 caterpillars grows up to be a butterfly

Pompeii Archaeological Park Director Massimo Osanna narrates stunning drone footage of preserved daily life in the ancient city

Biologist Tagide deCarvalho created this award-winning image of the tardigrade using fluorescent stains

New scans suggest unhatched dinosaurs reabsorbed a set of teeth during development

The nine classes span contemporary art, fashion and photography

Perhaps the cigar-shaped object is a shard from a shredded planetary body, a computer simulation suggests

From shy to bold with shades in between, dolphin personalities are surprisingly similar to ours

Blending marshmallows with scientific rigor, the contest offers levity during a difficult time

A star 100-times more massive than the sun exploded with 10-times more energy than a normal-sized supernova

These dairy products are no longer edible, but they're still valuable to researchers

Some 50 artists around the Prenzlauer Berg district displayed works of art for passersby to enjoy

Buyers can ask for a mix of their favorite genre or seek booksellers’ recommendations

Though not as plentiful as the Perseids in summer, the Lyrids can serve up some serious fireballs

These cliques wear pink every day of the week

The creator behind the reptilian repertoire hopes many more pet museums are in the works

Major League Baseball players and team employees to participate in 10,000-person COVID-19 study

Blossoms contort and twist back into optimal pollination position after getting bumped and battered

The project hasn’t yet been greenlit, but a proposal just got major funding to explore the potential for the lunar observatory

New research reveals the ancient symbiotic relationship behind geosmin, the chemical compound responsible for the scent of fresh rain

'The break in the scientific record is probably unprecedented,' one ecologist says

A newly identified trio of chemicals may help the primates find a mate

"Occupy White Walls" allows players to design their own art galleries—and explore others' out-of-the-box creations

The purplish-blue pigment, derived from a Portuguese fruit, fell out of use by the 19th century

The prickly perch is an exciting sign of success for the birds, which came off the endangered species list in 2007

The two NASA astronauts will lift off from historic launch pad 39A, used for the Apollo and space shuttle missions

The nearly 2,800-mile-long walking route runs all the way around the English coast

We’re really, really sorry

The Rubin Museum of Art and the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art offer an array of relaxing experiences

Researchers tracked changes in the crocodilian creatures’ inner ears to learn how they moved into the sea

The crustaceans' guts pulverize plastics into tiny bits that can be consumed by even smaller creatures at the base of the ocean food chain

Study suggests alleged exoplanet may have been a cloud of asteroid debris

The 20th-century architect defined a uniquely American style that used nature-inspired motifs and horizontal lines

The Archaeological Institute of America launched its Build Your Own Monument challenge early to inspire families quarantining at home

Scientists discover neurotoxin-producing bacteria living on the skin of rough-skinned newts

Fears around the pandemic are causing sleep patterns to change and strange dreams to linger in people’s memories

After missing years of shears, the voluminous creature had ballooned to about five times the size of a typical sheep

The ancient throwing stick may have been used by Neanderthals or an even earlier hominin

Beaches in Florida and Thailand have tentatively reported increases in nests, due to decreased human presence. But the trend won’t necessarily persist

The controversial series stems from the museum's desire to reach a younger generation by telling history in new ways

Canine-equid pairs can mimic each other’s facial expressions during play, which has never been seen between animals of different species

Traditionalist "two-spacers" can still disable the function

The 1888 historical account is likely the first ever confirmed case of a human being struck dead by an interstellar interloper