It may seem like a long leap to make from the R-rated streets of Tokyo's red light district to the yarrr-rated ...

Faulty power lines and electrical equipment are being blamed for causing deadly fires in Los Angeles and across the U.S. Is ...

Just in time for Modernism Week in Palm Springs, California, designer Michelle Boudreau conceptualized a sleek, contemporary ...

Tales from the Disenchanted and Wisdom from the Haiku A poetic venture in capturing the essence of human experience, Diana Leavengood Bla ...

Research from St. Olaf College and the University of Denver, published in Current Biology, found that a parasitic fly in ...

Hybrid animals, or crossbreeds, are the offspring of two distinct or closely related species. While some hybrids occur naturally, others result from artificial insemination. A hinny is the ...

They’re all U.S. state animals. And the snails hold another notable distinction—they are the country’s first-ever state gastropods. This past April, Hawaii enacted a law to designate nine ...

In Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii, Goro Majima may have a reputation for being dangerously unhinged, but that doesn't mean he doesn't have a soft spot for animals. Not long after venturing ...

The new species is named Hylaeus paumako in a nod to the Hawaiian word “paumākō,” which means grief or mourning, according to ...

Biologists, using a technique that explores both genes and structural characteristics, have introduced 10 new species of marine sponge. Despite their distinction as one of Earth's oldest lifeforms and ...