A British officer captured during World War I was granted leave to visit his dying mother on one condition - that he return, a historian has discovered.

Ohio prison's lax supervision was akin to "an episode from Hogan's Heroes."

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In which we discover why the quokka is smiling.

Twins Ross and Matt Duffer nearly gave up on "Stranger Things" before Netflix finally picked it up with the brothers signed on to write, direct and produce.

CN Rail and an Alberta First Nation want to start construction on a new facility to produce bitumen pucks this year and begin shipping the product around the world before the end of 2020.

German chemist

Directing and starring in the ensemble war comedy

The Netherlands has become an agricultural giant by showing what the future of farming could look like.

Dr. Shakeel Afridi, a 57-year-old former surgeon of Khyber Agency, had run a false vaccination campaign in Abbottabad to help the CIA track down Osama bin Laden.

When MIT and Quaker Oats paired up to conduct experiments on unsuspecting young boys

A bizarre rogue planet without a star is roaming the Milky Way just 20 light-years from Earth. And according to a recently published study in The Astrophysical Journal, this strange, nomadic world h

Evangelical Christian movement which teaches that Christians can access the power of faith or fear through speech

Copying books was tedious work. That's why medieval scribes carved out a space for themselves in the margins.

Alfred Russel Wallace, British humanist, naturalist, geographer, and social critic. He became a public figure in England during the second half of the 19th century, known for his courageous views on scientific, social, and spiritualist subjects. His formulation…

The American bison is the new U.S. national mammal, but its slaughter was once seen as a way to starve Native Americans into submission.

If you’re a keen observer of the United Nations General Assembly, you may have noticed the body’s President wields a very unusual looking gavel. It is a gift from Iceland, and there’s a very interesting story behind it.

American Vice President and politician

The Roman Catholic Church is pro-evolution and Big Bang, but with a twist