AUSTIN — If you love pecans, but don't love cracking them yourself, there's a service in Austin that will do it for you. The Lamar Senior Activity Center in Central Austin is once again offering its ...

As various dance troupes around town prepare for their annual trek to the Land of Sweets and the realm of the Sugarplum Fairy, a fresh adaptation of “The Nutcracker” premiering this month is bound to ...

Nut-cracking monkeys don't just use tools. They use tools with skill. That's the conclusion of a new study that finds similar tool-use strategies between humans and Brazil's bearded capuchin monkeys, ...

From an old cinder- block building behind a farmhouse in Chowan County, the rhythmic sounds of pecan crackers echo across the yard. Ka-chunk, ka-chunk, ka-chunk repeats about every second as one nut ...