Queens and Kings

A number of valuable artifacts — including "irreplaceable" prayer beads belonging to Mary, Queen of Scots — have been stolen from Arundel Castle in England.

Only moments before New Horizons flew by the most distant solar system object ever visited, astrophysicist and Queen guitarist Brian May released his new single based on the mission.

Freddie Mercury's impressive vocal abilities are explained, in the first analysis of the singer's technique.

The student's version features string theory and an Einstein sock puppet.

While both duchesses and princesses are royalty, and princesses technically outrank duchesses, the relationship between the two titles is not always clearly defined.

Scientists have invented the first successful method for culturing pearls from the queen conch

Geneology, historical texts point to inbreeding as cause of dying out of Spanish Habsburg dynasty.

She may have ruled like a man, but Egyptian queen Hatshepsut still preferred to smell like a lady.

An ant's fate, like a person's, is determined by both nature and nurture, it turns out.

Europe's Dark Ages ended when Charlemagne came along.