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The baby calf and mother Bibi are healthy, and the zoo says they are "inseparable."

Fiona the Hippo gets a little brother

Aug 9, 2022 The 23-year-old mother Bibi carried the boy, who weighs at least roughly 60 pounds.

A photo illustration of items left behind in books at the Oakland Public Library in Oakland, Calif.

A librarian collects all the things left in books — from love letters to old photos

Aug 3, 2022 Librarian Sharon McKellar collects the found artifacts and posts them on the library's website.

Bogan monitors the plant and animal life along the river.

The water came back

Aug 1, 2022 Poor water practices made the Santa Cruz River practically disappear, but new efforts have some water flowing again. And when there’s water in the desert, life follows quickly.

The Line is an ambitious part of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's plan to diversify the kingdom's economy and remake part of its geography.

A 105-mile-long city will snake through the Saudi desert. Is that a good idea?

Jul 27, 2022 It will cost hundreds of billions of dollars to build.

Rabin's house sits just down the road from a border checkpoint, in a corner of Arizona where water is drying up so quickly that many of her neighbors have spent tens of thousands of dollars to deepen their wells, or dig new ones altogether.

“Not here for some agrarian fantasy”

Jul 25, 2022 Arizona plays a big role in providing Americans with fresh greens year-round, and its farmers are feeling the pressure to keep that going while cutting down on water. It’s also not an easy place to start farming from scratch.

Watch Live: House January 6 committee holds public hearings on its investigation

Jul 21, 2022 Stream the hearing live online beginning at 5 p.m.

This reconstruction of a marble archer shows the vivid colors that characterized Greek sculpture, and patterns that identify him as a fighter from Persia.

We know Greek statues weren't white. Now you can see them in color.

Jul 13, 2022 "For some, it will be a shock," said Max Hollein, the director of the museum. "But one has to understand that our current, whitewashed idea of Greek and Roman antiquity is wrong. It's false."

United States Capitol Building

Watch Live: House January 6 committee holds public hearings - Day 7

Jul 11, 2022 TUESDAY at 10am

Dr. Peter Higgs was part of the team that correctly predicted the existence of the Higgs Boson particle over 60 years ago.

The Large Hadron Collider will embark on a third run to uncover more cosmic secrets

Jul 5, 2022 Scientists plan to restart the particle accelerator this month to possibly better understand cosmic unknowns like dark matter.

A woolly mammoth calf, believed to be female, was found in Canada's Yukon territory buried in ancestral land of the Trʼondëk Hwëchʼin, whose elders named her Nun cho ga, which means "big baby animal" in the Hän language.

A mummified baby mammoth was found in Canada with intact hair, skin and tusks

Jul 1, 2022 Despite being buried for over 30,000 years, the baby mammoth found in Canada's Yukon territory still had hair, skin and tusks intact.

The steps outside the Supreme Court in Washington, DC.

Watch: Ketanji Brown Jackson sworn in to the Supreme Court

Jun 29, 2022 THURSDAY at 9

Watch Live: Republican gubernatorial debate

Jun 29, 2022 WEDNESDAY at 5

United States Capitol Building

Watch Live: House January 6 committee holds public hearings - Day 6

Jun 27, 2022 TUESDAY at 10am

White House north side

WATCH: President Biden delivers remarks after Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade

Jun 24, 2022 FRIDAY at 9:30 a.m.

Post Office, Ophir, CO

What tiny towns in rural America can teach the cities about adaptation

Jun 24, 2022 "We'd spend 10-11 hours in the car, all day long, and travel from town to town. And I guess we started to see patterns develop."

United States Capitol Building

Watch Live: House January 6 committee holds public hearings on its investigation - Day 5

Jun 23, 2022 THURSDAY at Noon

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