These scientists analyzed native California wildflowers for a recent study and found that both space-based and airborne ...

Hammam Bouquet provides some answers; it has been worn on the wrists of some of the country's most influential individuals, like the maverick writer Oscar Wilde, and on the handkerchief of the ...

A letter in the Directors' Correspondence archive describes how the deadly prediction of an old Chinese proverb about bamboo flowering came true. "When the bamboo flowers, famine, death and ...