New biography describes Audubon&#39;s magnetism, obsession
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He was the 19th-century version of a performance artist, a buckskin-clad faux-frontiersman whose lean and hungry look set drawing-room society all atwitter.
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Homing pigeons may use a magnetic "map" inside their beaks to navigate, according to new research.
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MARATHON, Texas  - Naturalist-adventurer Alan  Tennant has tracked peregrine falcons across North America and  does not like what he sees.
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Famed neurologist riffs about music and how the brain experiences it. It's all here in a longer version of the interview from the October issue of Wired magazine.
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A new book helps adults talk to kids about the birds, the bees and Britneyâs underwear in an age when sexual innuendo and provocative images seem to be everywhere.Â
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A chilling new book provides an inside account of the Bush administration, revealing its obsession with expanding presidential power and its arrogant unilateralism.
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A new memoir gives us the hilarious, excruciating life story of the man who wrote The Corrections
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"Ode Ã¢ l'Oubli," a 36-page fabric-on-fabric book, is a tactile diary of the long, trans-Atlantic, unusually examined life of the artist.
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With a new book the controversial author takes on the sacred ground of the terror attacks and their aftermath
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Billionaire biologist J. Craig Venter is part of a new kind of scientific explorer whose uncharted territory was his own genes.
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The resume of psychiatrist Park Dietz reads like a who's who of notorious killers of the last quarter-century.
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The populations of nearly two dozen common American birds &#151; the fence-sitting meadowlark, the frenetic Rufous hummingbird and the whippoorwill with its haunting call &#151; are half what they were 40 years ago, a new analysis found.
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A new book by C. A. Tripp, a psychologist who died in 2003, concludes that America's greatest president was a gay man.
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Stephin Merritt, best known as the guiding light of the Magnetic Fields, is a man of broad tastes.
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Bob Martin, a writer and the lead of the musical ÂThe Drowsy Chaperone,Â is obsessed with hand-held devices.
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[World News]: Washington, Nov 27 : Scientist have always wondered how pigeons manage to be such good navigators and have a &#39;nose for the north&#39; and now a new study has suggested that it is because they have small magnetic particles in their beaks, which
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In a season flooded with film biographies, there are fascinating books offering fresh and sometimes alternative views of people we've come to know onscreen.