After a short stint in Brooklyn, Amy Schumer is back on the Upper West Side. The comedian and actress recently sold her ...

The 11,670-square-foot Upper West Side home is a head-turning masterpiece of Elizabethan Renaissance Revival style, as well ...

Stripes. Spots. Symmetries. Swirls. In the natural world, patterns help animals attract or repel, blend in or stand out. This scale-covered pinwheel is a veiled chameleon’s tail, which the animal ...

Composer Max Richter turned to Elizabethan-era instruments and a women’s choir to help find “Hamnet‘s” emotional tone. “Hamnet” is based on Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 novel, and tells the story of ...

The coin minted between 1584 and 1586 celebrates England’s naval superiority. By Laura Baisas Published Dec 9, 2025 9:27 AM EST Get the Popular Science daily ...

Hans Eworth's 1562 portrait of Thomas Howard, Fourth Duke of Norfolk, fetched $4.2 million at auction. Sotheby's A 16th-century painting of an English duke sold for $4.2 million last week, making it ...

The portrait of Thomas Howard, the fourth Duke of Norfolk, was painted by Hans Eworth in 1562 A 1562 painting of a duke has sold for more than £3.2m, said by the auctioneers to be a record for an ...

The stock market is often described as a battleground between buyers and sellers, and like any battle, it leaves behind telltale signs. For the savvy investor, those signs are printed directly onto a ...

A boy was found to have a horrific Elizabethan disease caused by severe malnutrition from neglect. Scurvy is caused by the severe deficiency of vitamin C and was a common illness for sailors in the ...

One of Ireland’s oldest historic maps, Captain John Baxter’s "A true description of the Norwest partes of Irelande" (circa 1599), holds the untold story of Elizabethan espionage and the sly art of spy ...

Siobhan Keenan received funding from the Society for Theatre Research. How did Shakespeare become the world’s greatest playwright? It’s a question that has long fascinated scholars and fans alike. My ...

A new family of origami shapes that unfold like flower petals could be used to design more effective structures in space, like telescopes or solar panels. Origami structures, based on the Japanese ...