This week’s viral cooking video—appearing on sites as wide-ranging as Gizmodo, Grub Street, and the Irish Examiner—shows a chef turning a carrot into a net. It will definitely make you think Whoa, ...

The Eiffel Tower was not, at its birth, universally admired. The fact that it was supposed to be temporary did not mollify the people who disliked it, chief among them the short-story writer Guy de ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. A legendary “walking” tree has captivated rainforest ...

Those palm fronds, waving against a blue sky, are the essence of the buoyant tropics. Palms have another use besides aesthetics that please tourists, however. The oil from palm trees is a big ...

Every July 4th, for most of the past decade, I log on to Twitter and start retweeting every photo and video I can find of palm trees accidentally set on fire by illegal fireworks. As with most social ...