Ancient hunters killed woolly mammoths for their meat. Today in Russia’s Arctic the search is on for their valuable tusks.

archangel in Talmudic and post-Talmudic lore

The Patriot Guard Riders (PGR) is an organization based in the United States whose members attend the funerals of members of the U.S. military, firefighters, and police at the invitation of a decedent's family.They saw a need for their services when it was…

first successful vaccine to be developed

Coordinates: 32°50′48″N 96°51′40″W / 32.8467°N 96.861°W / 32.8467; -96.861 (Southwest Airlines Headquarters)

the supposed tendency of technical equipment to encounter critical failure in the presence of certain people

The Office of Censorship was an emergency wartime agency set up by the United States federal government on December 19, 1941 to aid in the censorship of all communications coming into and going out of the United States, including its territories and the Philippines.…

Keepers say that Calvin Klein perfume is particular hit with all the big cats at the zoo.

Because of soil depletion, crops grown decades ago were much richer in vitamins and minerals than the varieties most of us get today

The CIA's experimentation with LSD led to disastrous results.

Intelligence and personality have some common features; for example, they both follow a relatively stable pattern throughout the whole of one’s life, which is genetically determined in different degrees. In addition, they are both significant predictors of…

Sure they can. At least that’s true for the wild turkey, but not so much for the domesticated bird. And while it may not surprise most hunters that turkeys…

American singer-songwriter and actor

Scientists say marine life has proved ‘remarkably resilient’ despite the Pacific island being declared a wasteland in the 1950s

The 37-million-year-old colossus penguin would have been comparable to LeBron James in height and weight.

Dear Alice, I live in a medium-size city in Saitama Prefecture and am puzzled by a speaker system mounted on a huge pole right outside my apartment. Every

Rowan Sebastian Atkinson CBE (born 6 January 1955) is an English actor, comedian and writer. He is best known for his work on the sitcoms Blackadder (1983–1989) and Mr. Bean (1990–1995). Atkinson first came to prominence in the BBC's sketch comedy show Not…

dissociative disorder in which the sufferer is affected by persistent or recurrent feelings of depersonalization and/or derealization

And the odds of spinning a penny are even more skewed in one direction, but which way?

While on safari in Tanzania you will not only see animals, but also trees. Tanzania has hundreds of tree species but today I am highlighting one in particular, the acacia family. East Africa has around 62 species of which six are endemic to Tanzania.  Acacias…

Using lots of emojis in an online dating profile can turn potential matches away, according to a research project.