It's quick and easy to access Live Science Plus, simply enter your email below. We'll send you a confirmation and sign you up for our daily newsletter, keeping you up to date with the latest science ...

This week: Producer George Ingmire and I begin a new series, Thinking Outside the Book, about the unusual uses and pleasures of books in readers' lives. First up: A visit with Eli Boyne, library ...

RALEIGH — Dead men tell no tales, but there’s new evidence that somebody aboard the pirate Blackbeard’s flagship harbored books among the booty. In an unusual find, researchers have discovered shreds ...

Archaeological conservators with a North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources lab in Greenville have discovered and preserved fragments of paper found on the wreckage of Queen Anne's ...

To contact Mary Greenwood, email mgreen464@aol.com. Joan North's "Fragments of Grace" is a novel that sometimes reads like a mystery or memoir. In the opening scene, Grace is at her own funeral. Soon ...

Fragments of a lost ancient Roman law text have been rediscovered in the scrap paper used to bind other books. The Codex Gregorianus, or Gregorian Code, was compiled by an otherwise unknown man named ...