The weather is getting colder, the days are getting darker, and sinister ravens are wheeling through the sky to warn us of coming doom (or it feels that way, at least). The time has never been better ...

Norse mythology has it all—gods with unpredictable tempers, worlds teetering on the brink of destruction, and larger-than-life heroes who never shy away from a good fight. Whether you're a fan of Thor ...

Neil Gaiman, the comic book guy? The Coraline guy? Yes, that's him. He's taken his talents as a story teller and used them to reshape the myths of the Norse into a classic story arc, more resembling a ...

Will Magnus Chase do for Norse mythology what Percy Jackson did for the classical Greek pantheon—make it extremely popular with kid readers again? Topher Bradfield, the children’s outreach coordinator ...

The gods and goddesses of Olympus are still alive, clomping through our literature, art, and movies. (On the street today, I saw a truck with Hermes on its side—he was gripping a bouquet of flowers, ...

Review | Book review: Norse Mythology – Neil Gaiman’s retells story of ‘tragic heroes, tragic villains’ Learn how Odin gave up his eye to gain wisdom, how Thor got his hammer, how a shape-shifting ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

A new analysis of ancient DNA found in medieval books from European abbeys reveals that these seals came from the northwestern Atlantic Ocean, where they were hunted in the 12th and 13th centuries for ...