A Magical Idyll's Mystery Future
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RISHIKESH, India -- With their iconic long hair and necklaces of Indian marigolds, the Beatles journeyed to this city in the foothills of the Himalayas in the late 1960s. They were at the height of their fame, but they came to escape material wealth and the pressures of celebrity.
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The surreal and the subtle intrigue South African writer Mary Watson. In exploring those qualities in her fiction, she gives a fresh perspective on the brutality of apartheid.
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One of the last stands of dragonâs blood trees may soon succumb to the harsh environment.
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The publisher who first signed up J.K. Rowling believes he may have found another Harry Potter -- but this time it is a boy archaeologist.
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J.K. Rowling's world of wizardry will come to life in Florida in a few years.
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In a wise new novel, life happens, haphazardly
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The discovery of remains of a tiny human closely related to man on the remote Indonesian island of Flores and tales of Hobbit-like creatures who still roam its jungles have triggered an influx of visitors in search of a fabled lost world.
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The winds of change are upon us.
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An art detective is poised to solve the mystery of what happened to âThe Battle of Anghiari,â considered by some experts to be Leonardoâs greatest painting.
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Honestly, what you're about to read might surprise you.
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Scientists are puzzled, but the phenomenon seems to fit the latest global-warming models.
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J.K. Rowling's offhand remark about a character in her Harry Potter books is met with puzzlement in some quarters and delight in others.
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The surface of one of the brightest stars in the night sky is imaged by scientists.
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LONDON (Reuters Life!) - A mythical and ghostly creature has appeared in the wilds of the Scottish Highlands.
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It's barely dawn when Mike Fitzpatrick starts his shift with a blur of colorful maps, figures and endless charts, but already he knows what the day will bring. Lightning will strike in places he expects. Winds will pick up, moist places will dry and flames will roar.
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When civilization falls, does it make a sound? Two books about the end of worlds--and what follows
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Two monster cosmic clouds could hold the solution to the mystery of the missing matter -- immense amounts of celestial stuff that somehow has eluded detection.