A gift the Board of Visitors accepted in 1927, how the Merton Spire came to the lower Pavilion VI garden is a mystery.

The three stones are easy to miss. Cut from granite and flush to the ground, weathered and surrounded by twisting tree roots, ...

They vary in size: some can be as small as a grain of sand to as large as a pebble, and even as extreme as a golf ball. There are four types of kidney stones: calcium oxalate, uric acid ...

Monkeys and other apes may hold a large stone in their hands to crack a nut on a flat, tablelike stone. Stone tools are important to archaeologists because they are durable and preserve well.

An Italian immigrant artist who helped shape the Mount Rushmore National Memorial lived most of his adult life in Westchester. Born in 1892, Luigi Del Bianco began wood carving as a boy in Meduno, ...

Mexican architecture firm Estudio Cristina Grappin has opened a large stone house to coastal breezes between the courtyard and the Pacific Ocean in Punta Mita, Mexico. Known as Casa Quinto Sol ...

They may have been engraved at different times by multiple people. This suggests that the original, large stone was intentionally fragmented, scattered and incorporated into later burials.

Immune cells in the brain called microglia can partially break down large amyloid plaques characteristic of Alzheimer's disease by latching on to them, forming a sort of external stomach and ...

NORTH CONWAY, N.H. - Video captured by the Mount Washington Avalanche Center shows a wall of snow racing down the mountain on Christmas Eve. The center says the "large natural avalanche" happened ...

Minister for School Education Madhu Bangarappa, on Tuesday, laid the foundation stone for installing a plaque carrying the Preamble of the Indian Constitution at Allama Prabhu Park (Freedom Park ...

Watch moss grow along the rough stones and enhance that aged feel. If you pick large stones, this type of border can double as a walkway along your landscaping. Using old-looking, rough-hewn stones as ...