Yabba dabbo do! Your favorite modern stone age family made their TV debut on this day in 1960.

transition of human species to anthropologically modern behavior

Have plane seats shrunk? Of course they have - what a ludicrous question. Just take a look at the happy folk on board any passenger aircraft during the so-called “golden age” of flying. What luxury. There’s so much legroom they don’t know what to do with…

Randy Heiss wasn't going to let anything -- not even an international border -- stop him from fulfilling an 8-year-old girl's Christmas wishes.

When one thinks of German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, one cannot help but conjure up the image of a sombre and misogynistic old man, whose pessimistic outlook on life left little to be desired. While the shortcomings on some of his theories have to be…

He barely managed to survive, but the pills he took to recover pulled him into a drug relapse that would change the course of his life. Read the story here.

A blogger’s latest attempt to confound An Post has been scuppered after a clued-in postman was able to deliver a letter to a Wexford lighthouse using just a map drawn on the envelope.

Palliative-care doctors explain the “existential slap” that many people face at the end.

Gustav III of Sweden's coffee experiment was a twin study ordered by the king to study the health effects of coffee. Although the authenticity of the event has been questioned, the experiment, which was conducted in the second half of the 18th century, failed…

The Perils of Slow Communication If you didn’t know anything about Samuel Morse, but were told he was one of the inventors behind the telegraph, it is likely you’d think he was an engineer or a scientist of some sort. In reality he was an accomplished artist.…

Sylvia Bloom was born to immigrants and died a self-made millionaire philanthropist, leaving her family "flabbergasted."

Here, we have put together a list of answers to the most frequently asked questions.

song performed by Perry Como

Black dog syndrome or big black dog syndrome is a phenomenon in which black dogs are passed over for adoption in favor of lighter-colored animals. Animal shelters often use the term BBD, or big black dog, to describe the type of larger dark-colored mixed…

Physician, philosopher, writer, Bolshevik

Wikipedia has locked its page on the font for editing as the scandal grows.

The new home secretary was the latest politician to strike a power pose on Monday. But what does the science say about this odd stance?

non-scientific term typically referring to transitional fossils in human evolution

Dripping with menace, the alien in Ridley Scott's 1979 space horror classic was quite literally its break-out star. Meet the man who brought it to life.