Engineers around the world are tweaking drones, robots and smart tools to help prevent the spread of the virus

A planned exhibition at the Portland Art Museum highlights the boldness of their work

Steeds who made headlines for winning races now get to enjoy their final years at a slower pace

Despite historic setbacks similar to today's, Americans have become more dedicated travelers

Modified hospital designs have become necessary as the first wave of the pandemic tears through U.S. communities

Helping health care workers treat patients and public safety officials contain the pandemic, these robots offer lessons for future disasters

Graffiti artists and muralists are sending messages of hope and despair with coronavirus public art

Schools are shuttered, but kids can dance with New York's Ballet Hispánico and listen to a story from a certain former First Lady

Why not use quarantine as an opportunity to have your homeschoolers master woodworking or engine repair?

The National Book Award winner's new book delves into matters of family grief and loss

Dreamscape is an escape from the relentless pace of cityscapes. A matrix caught between reality and a dream. A moment frozen amongst the chaos there is calm.

Fishing down the stream

The green tree python is a species of python native to New Guinea, some parts of Indonesia and Australia. Juvenile snakes are often yellow in colour. Green tree pythons love to snuggle up branches, coiled up, and ready to ambush prey.

Hundreds of sheets of cloth create a rainbow of colours as workers lay them out to dry. A sea of red, orange, pink, purple and yellow can be seen in these aerial shots as the fabric dries in a field. Workers can also be seen in the middle of the palette of colour as they unfold each sheet. Once the cloth dries it is used to create traditional Bangladeshi women's dresses.

A Guanaco (Lama guanicoe) surveys its surroundings from a vantage point at sunset, with the imposing Torres del Paine (Chile) in the background. Scouts like this individual keep an eye out for predators.

A banded anole from the Amazon rainforest, these lizards live in the trees and rely on their excellent camouflage to stay safe.

This photo shows the beautiful landscape of Capital Reef National Park with its amazing old orchards in foreground. Capital Reef has many old orchards of peaches, apples and apricots. The park lets you eat all you want if you eat it in the orchard.

Part of an extended family of lions, this little lion cub practiced his climbing skills in a tree. Trying to judge what was above him, he looked up, giving me an adorable shot.

It was a quiet morning at Nagarahole Tiger Reserve, Sun was opening up and the mist from the night was clearing. As we made a drive through the wood we saw this beautiful leopardess perching on her favourite tree. This leopardess was marking her presence by rubbing her scent glands to the tree trunk by hugging it. This behaviour was very interesting to witness as it was marking her scent on the top branches of the tree. This is one of the favourite pictures that I took recently because of the whole setup. Artistically one can visualize the tree branch as an "Arm of the Mother Nature" and leopard is holding on to it. It shows the unmitigated bonding shared between the tree and the Leopard.

This male Polar Bear is walking across the frozen fjord in search of an active seal breathing hole, in the midnight sun.

Pink flamingo greeting each other.

A Brown Bear takes a quick dip while hunting for salmon at Anan Creek Bear Observatory in SE Alaska.

The Great Egret displaying its beautiful plumage to attract a mate.

Tour a gallery of presidential portraits, print a 3-D model of a fossil or volunteer to transcribe historical documents

In the hours after disaster struck Anchorage, an unexpected figure named Genie Chance came to the rescue

A century ago, Susan Pringle Frost tirelessly campaigned to save these South Carolina buildings from destruction

We're highlighting newly released titles may have been lost in the news as the nation endures the coronavirus pandemic

The National Trust for Historic Preservation is looking for 1,000 places tied to women's history, and to share the stories of the figures behind them

The first major exhibition of its kind, "Hearts of Our People," boasts 82 pieces from 115 Native women across North America

The second installment in our weekly series spotlights titles that may have been lost in the news amid the COVID-19 pandemic

A new book explores how George Washington shaped the group of advisors as an institution to meet his own needs

Using the lunar module as a lifeboat and employing techniques never before considered, the astronauts' ordeal ended triumphantly

Sketches from the workshop of French engineer Gustave Eiffel suggest a different plan for Lady Liberty’s upraised arm

The third installment in our weekly series spotlights titles that may have been lost in the news amid the COVID-19 crisis

Tensions leading to the split, announced 50 years ago today, had been bubbling under the band’s cheery surface for years

In a nation under quarantine, chronicling a crisis demands careful strategy

Seventy-five years after a memorable mission, the B26 bomber 'Flak-Bait' undergoes preservation at the National Air and Space Museum

During his 20-year professional career, his boisterous style endeared him to fans but rankled traditionalists

Sheltering in place doesn’t mean you can’t study up for your next European adventure

As Babe Ruth was emerging as baseball's great slugger in 1918, he fell sick with the flu

The institution took decades to come to grips with the trauma of the killing of four students 50 years ago

In the late 1300s, tea was introduced to Japan from mainland China, transported in delicate jars. Over the years, as drinking tea became a prized activity in Japan, so too did the jars in which it was stored

During the Nazi occupation of France, many valuable works of art were stolen from the Jeu de Paume museum and relocated to Germany. One brave French woman kept detailed notes of the thefts

See how researchers at Smithsonian's National Zoo are trying to glean insight into elephant foraging behavior and more.

Alexander von Humboldt was intrigued by deadly electric eels. He was so determined to learn more about them, that in Los Llanos, he’d hold them in his hands to test the strength of their shock.

The medieval English longbow first came to prominence during the Hundred Years War. In 1346, English forces used it to devastating effect to cut down a superior French army.

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Residents can now order up to two bottles of wine, 24 cans of beer or more than a litre of spirits from local restaurants and bars.

The Nunavut government says there is no set limit on how much money it is prepared to spend on hotels for residents required to isolate before they return home.