The Day of the Dude is now celebrated worldwide.

Vermont's Mount Stratton hosted a festival dedicated to yoga, meditation and overall mindfulness.

A simple arrangement of meaningful things can help us find inspiration in our daily lives.

These instructors are inspirational, and they've changed the world in their own particular ways.

Researchers reviewed more than 20 studies that investigated the effect that several types of meditation had on positive feelings.

Deep sea explorers capture video of a rare encounter with a piglet squid, so named because it appears to have a snout.

New research from a team of U.K. scientists reveals that humpback whales share songs during their migratory travels in the South Pacific.

Poll numbers show that if wind would run for office in Wisconsin, it would beat almost all major candidates already elected to office.

Researchers have developed an interactive tool that uses bat calls and local environmental conditions to help wind farms reduce bat fatalities while still runni

Multitasking infrastructure on the Canary Islands could power as many as 500 homes.

The Elbphilharmonie features over 1 million computer-generated divots to shape sound within its main auditorium.

Left all alone, this dog 'plays' the piano and 'sings' the blues.

'Love's Not Just For Christmas' has all the elements of a great holiday tune — except for Michael Bublé.

A student and his fellow surfers used their skills to ride the giant waves to safety after a deadly tsunami struck Samoa.

When the ocean rose up and saved a Greek town from a marauding Persian army nearly 1,500 years ago, renowned Greek historian Herodotus chalked it up to an act o

X- and Y-shaped ocean waves that are often seen at beaches may help explain why tsunamis can be so devastating, researchers say.

Nuclear fallout has benefitted the beasts, considered as both tasty and fearsome in Japanese culture.

A pair of preservation-minded architects are giving away a historic 1926 bungalow sold as a mail order kit home by Sears with one big catch ...

The flashy and fancy new breed of ice fishing shacks are extravagant enough to make grandpa drop his hand auger in disbelief.

Get a jump on Thanksgiving prep with these pro tips and avoid holiday meltdowns.

Archaeologists have uncovered new evidence that could push the date of human habitation in Australia back possibly as far as 80,000 years ago.

Neanderthals might be extinct, but their genes still live on inside of us.

A paper hypothesizes that some of our language skills evolved out of specific cave art features.

Pools of water on Earth's moon might have teemed with simple organisms.

The find confirms that America's earliest human inhabitants were here much sooner than previously thought.

HIV might never have become a global pandemic if it wasn't for the ecology of what is now known as Kinshasa, and what was then a 1920s colonial hub.

A startling find in Wyoming radically changes our theories about the distant origins of our taxonomic order.

If dinosaurs had telescopes and had pointed them at Saturn, they might have seen a ringless world.

Researchers have unearthed fossils of an extinct spider family that contain reflective material in the eyes that gave them superior night vision.

The latest World Meteorological Organization Greenhouse Gas Bulletin paints a grim picture for our environment.

A 2017 study published in Environmental Research Letters offers a number of ways to reduce your carbon emissions, and having fewer kids topped the list.

In continued efforts to track changes in glacial and sea ice, NASA's IceBridge plane has begun collecting data in Greenland.

It's unlikely that coffee or tea is growing in your garden, so after you finish that cup, put the grounds to work with these clever ideas.

Feeling a little full of yourself? Check out these 19 boys and girls who actually did something about the world's ills before they even got to their 20s.

As you click through these incredible photos, you'll remember just why it's worth fighting to save our oceans.

Each of us is a cloud of microscopic particles, chemicals and microorganisms swirling around us that's always there. It's called an exposome, and it's unique.

A state legislator has an interesting and potentially viable way to avoid dealing with the EPA.

The odds of a shark attack are already infinitesimal, but with a few simple precautions, it is possible to discourage them even further.

I hiked to see flowing lava in Hawai‘i. Now I can't shut up about it.

This foliage map from SmokeyMountains.com is a handy, up-to-date guide to fall leaf season all over the country.

Austin's Lions Municipal Golf Course is one of 10 at-risk sites featured in a new report from The Cultural Landscape Foundation.

One man says a century of rhetoric on oil shale shows that it's an idea that will never come to fruition.

Aaron Tucker was hoping a job interview would change his life, but he wound up saving a life instead.

As the season of giving approaches, support your local food bank's commitment to give less junk food and donate only nutritious food.

We've given far too much of our lives to Facebook to give up on the relationship now.

Cards are piling up for the man whose heart literally broke when his dog died.

In a small sample, scientists have discovered microplastics in human poop, with every sample containing some. The most common were polypropylene and PET.

Endurance athlete Ben Lecomte attempted to swim across the Pacific Ocean to bring attention to the state of our oceans.

The USNS Henry J. Kaiser is carrying 900,000 gallons of biofuel blended with petroleum for evaluation and testing.

The Southern Hemisphere will experience more devastating wind and waves as the world warms, according to new research.