Hermit crabs have a pretty good thing going. They make their home in discarded gastropod shells, and when they outgrow it, they just hop into a bigger one. This affords the crab protection […]

Polychrome is the art of painting with colors, whether it is two-dimensional (pictures, walls) or three-dimensional (sculpture, architectural elements).
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The tomb, and the cheese found inside it, is believed to be 3,200 years old

Wikimedia Commons"Happy as a clam" is one of those expressions that makes you wonder: Does this phrase come from an actual measurement of the happiness of

HitchBOT, the tweeting, child-sized robot that made its way across Canada and safely visited Germany and the Netherlands was "vandalized" in the U.S.

Wikimedia Commons"Happy as a clam" is one of those expressions that makes you wonder: Does this phrase come from an actual measurement of the happiness of

A Macedonian bear is found guilty in absentia for repeatedly raiding a beekeeper's property in search of honey.

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On this Veterans Day, we look back at how the nation’s first president became the highest-ranking military officer in American history.

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Charles Darwin had kind of a thing for beetles, and would go to great lengths to collect and study them. In 1846, he wrote to a friend about one of the entomological adventures he had looking for ground beetles: 

Baseball icon Babe Ruth set numerous records as a pitcher and slugging outfielder. He was among the first five players inducted into the sport's Hall of Fame.

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Openly gay men are exempt from military service in Turkey, but they have to go to extraordinary lengths to prove their sexuality.

1981 musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber

religious sect followed by the Kastom people

A converted storage room on the top floor of the Supreme Court building has become a place for justices and their clerks to get a run in—and a source of a great many tales.

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Meet Brassica Oleracea. You've been eating it for years.