Cartel to control the manufacture and sale of incandescent light bulbs

subspecies of the American Black Bear, British Columbia, Canada

highball cocktail made with gin and tonic water

Welcome to the third edition of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. Our aim is to provide a comprehensive, scholarly, and critical guide to science fiction in all its forms.

When it comes to the late Johnny Cash, true stories that sound like myths are plentiful. Cash was a country outlaw who partied like a rock star before it was even a thing. He struggled with drug addiction, he started a forest fire, he fought an ostrich, he…

Flemish cartographer

American actress

Trained canines help locate burial sites dating back to the iron age in Croatia

Road signs in the United Kingdom conform broadly to European design norms, though a number of signs are unique: direction signs omit European route numbers and road signs generally use the Imperial System of units (miles and yards), unlike the rest of Europe…

fear of the number 13

Most moles, often called "common moles," are benign. But what about a mole that has one or more hairs growing out of it? It's a popular myth that hairy moles are often cancerous, but that's all it is: a myth. Here's all the information you need to know.

Pictures of baby animals, including puppies and kittens, can have powerful effects on attention and concentration, a study shows.

The answer, a NASA engineer warned, “will sound rather cold and unfeeling.”

The U.S. Office of Naval Research owns a very strange piece of oceanographic equipment. It’s called the FLoating Instrument Platform (FLIP),...

Lyndon Baines Johnson (/ˈlɪndən ˈbeɪnz/; August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973), often referred to by his initials LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969, and previously as 37th vice president…

ice cream dessert; consists of scoops of ice cream topped with sauce or syrup, and in some cases other toppings including sprinkles, whipped cream, peanuts, maraschino cherries, or other fruits

'Call of Duty,' 'Grand Theft Auto' and lots of music games.

plumbing fixture or type of sink intended for washing the genitalia and anus of the human body

Back in April of this year, a manunoscript popped up in our submission system from two chemists we know well from Twitter/the chemistry blogosphere — Chemjobber and Alex Goldberg. The paper, ennoscriptd A comprehensive overview of chemical-free consumer products…