as the spotlight has returned to his catalog in a major way. Americans are buying both his albums and some of his most famous tunes once more. On iTunes’ U.S.-based albums chart, which usually ...

A new study is “a bit of a counterweight to the endless hyperbole about how incredibly complex and powerful the human brain is,” one researcher said. By Carl Zimmer In our digital age, few ...

A Peruvian police officer dressed as the Grinch, the cantankerous and green-furred villain, busted suspected drug traffickers in the South American country's capital days before Christmas.

Decades later, the 53-year-old played a role in a historic Peruvian court ruling that granted legal personhood to the Marañón River. Canaquiri and the Kukama Indigenous Women's Federation ...