CORVALLIS, Ore. (KTVZ) – An Oregon State University-led collaboration of ecologists and art historians has demonstrated that landscape paintings from more than 150 years ago can advance environmental ...

The Wagner Free Institute of Science acquired its set of 28 mushrooms well over a century ago, but they haven't lost their color – and no, they don't stink. The collection is still in good shape ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Camille Flammarion's work imagined what might exist beyond Earth in the universe. Three Lions/Hulton Archive via Getty Images ...

In new novel The Naturalist Society, CU Boulder alum Carrie Vaughn offers a fresh take on historical fantasy For New York Times bestselling author and University of Colorado Boulder graduate Carrie ...

Check one, two; check one, two; is this thing on? Over on The Public Domain Review [Lucas Thompson] takes us for a spin through sound, as it was in Britain around and through the 1800s. The article ...

Thinking geographically about nineteenth-century science / Charles W. J. Withers and David N. Livingstone -- Sites and scales -- Refashioning the spaces of London science: Elite epistemes in the ...

Looking at nineteenth-century science: an introduction / David Cahan -- Biology / Robert J. Richards -- Scientific medicine / Michael Hagner -- The earth sciences / David R. Oldroyd -- Mathematics / ...

A sledgehammer dealt the final blow to New York City’s dream of a paleontology museum. On May 3, 1871, workers broke into the workshop of famed British artist Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins. Inside, they ...

Woollen swimwear, popular a century ago, might soon make a splash on Australian beaches again. In the 19th century, when natural fibers were the only option, beach-goers donned costumes made of wool ...

Thomas Cole (American, 1801–1848). The Mountain Ford, 1846. Oil on canvas, 71.8 × 101.8 cm. Metropolitan Museum of Art, bequest of Maria DeWitt Jessup, from the collection of her husband, Morris K.