Physician, philosopher, writer, Bolshevik

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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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During its 34 years of service, the SR-71 gathered intelligence in some of the w...

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In 1960, 8-year-old Australian boy Graeme Thorne was abducted and murdered. His kidnapper demanded a ransom of part of the money that his parents, Bazil Thorne and Freda Thorne, had won in an Opera House lottery. The crime, regarded as one of the most infamous…

For some time the question of the religious faith of the Founding Fathers has generated a culture war in the United States. Scholars trained in research universities have generally argued that the majority of the Founders were religious rationalists or Unitarians.…

An excerpt from Alexander Fleming's 1945 Nobel Prize acceptance speech for his, Howard Florey, Ernst Chain's discovery of Penicillin.

From the blue-ringed octopus’s perspective, your breathless screaming and vomiting aren’t her fault. This little lady—barely the length of a pencil,...

Abigail Disney, heiress to the Disney fortune, on being raised with wealth.

CBC North's Igalaaq is an Inuktitut news show, that anchor Madeleine Allakariallak translates live on the air.

DEEP in a ba­nana plan­ta­tion at Tullera, near Lis­more, sits an un­likely pair of mates, each cov­ered in sweat and red soil, tend­ing to their grow­ing share-crop of Hawai­ian sweet pota­toes, taro and cas­sava – crops des­tined for Bris­bane’s Pa­cific…

Only now are the sacrifices made by thousands of Indians who lost their lives in WW1 beginning to be remembered, writes Shashi Tharoor.