Beyond his enthusiastic embrace of sculpture and resentment over the Sistine Chapel project, the artist found painting in ...

Vitruvian Man. (Leonardo da Vinci/Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain) Leonardo da Vinci, the famous Italian polymath who painted the Mona Lisa, had a sophisticated geometric understanding far ahead of ...

Tennessee’s newest flashpoint in the culture wars just cleared a key hurdle. On Tuesday, the Tennessee Senate Judiciary Committee recommended the Women’s Safety and Protection Act for passage in a 7–1 ...

Nature does not reward politeness, and being a male or female doesn't change that rule either. Across the animal kingdom, the female gender often controls reproduction and resources with ruthless ...

Admirers of Banu Mushtaq’s International Booker-winning Heart Lamp will enjoy Salma’s Dark Hours of the Night, translated from the Thamizh by GJV Prasad. Originally published in 2006 as Irandam ...

Anatomy is the field of biology that studies the structure of living things. Anatomy focuses on the composition, structure and location of the parts of organisms tissues, organs and systems as well as ...

In the fourth century, a Christian pilgrim by the name of Egeria set off from the Mediterranean to reach the Holy Land, using the Bible as her guidebook. “These mountains are ascended with infinite ...

Washington’s fall ballot could feature a politically charged double-header that would reshape how schools handle student privacy and who gets to suit up on girls’ teams. One proposal would bar ...

In this series of features Ian l Handford (President of Torbay Civic Society) looks at famous individuals who lived in Torbay in the 20th century ...