[Download for PDF/printable version of this article] When I started looking into this subject, I predicted a person’s physical attractiveness would only have minor advantages. I was wrong. In fact, I was so wrong, that in one study, the effects of physical…

The falling green characters at the beginning of all of the Matrix films have become perhaps the most recognisable visual from the film, signifying how everything in the franchise's universe is a

Cucumbers are known as one of the lightest and most refreshing fruits around. In fact, that old "cool as a cucumber" cliche isn't a joke at all.

American science fiction author and the founder of the Church of Scientology

Objects left on the Moon are not just abandoned rockets and rovers. There is a lot of historic and sentimental memorabilia. Some of it hints at a mission that the first Moonwalkers almost forgot.

Every time I go on a safari, I always see a few African elephants that don't have tusks, like this big adult female in the northern Serengeti.

American rock jam band

How did an out-of-work actor in Los Angeles and his two friends create a successful television series for less than $100? The story begins  in 2004, when Philadelphia-born Rob McElhenney, a working actor with a handful of credits (including a Law & Order…

Trofim Lysenko’s spurious research prolonged famines that killed millions. So why is a fringe movement praising his legacy?

Implanting mice with human astrocytes makes them demonstrably more intelligent than their non-human-hybrid peers.

Union Army officer

The Green House effect

Golfers share their fairways with some pretty unusual wildlife.

It’s National <em>Ghostbusters</em> Day today (really!), and in celebration we thought we’d dig deep into the 1984 horror-comedy classic to reveal seven fascinating bits of trivia that you might not have heard before.

Indian American writer and civil rights activist

These lions were charismatic both together as partners and separately, but they were hardly ever apart from one another. Their undivided attention was always on the other as they rested together, cuddled, and nuzzled often.

This paper, about the curious phenomenon of "harbinger customers" and "harbinger zip codes", is really interesting. These harbinger customers tend to buy unpopular products like Crystal Pepsi or Col