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.

Garrett Morgan blazed a trail for African-American inventors with his patents, including those for a hair-straightening product, a breathing device, a revamped sewing machine and an improved traffic signal.

She was a physicist, too—and there is evidence that she contributed significantly to his groundbreaking science.

The incident happened in Tasmania, Australia, where a man intended to catch a footage of ghost in his house had caught footage far worse—his de facto 10-year girlfriend having sex with his own son. According to Telegraph UK, the woman, cannot be named due…

1994 vampire film by Neil Jordan

Deion Sanders is an athlete who played professional football and baseball and is the only person to play in both a Super Bowl and the World Series.

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