The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has announced a £1 million bounty to the first person who can crack the impossible: create a product that the RSC considers to be 100% chemical-free.

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toy with an outer fabric sewn from a textile and then stuffed with flexible material

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Imagine if you only had one shot at passing on your genes before you died. It happens more often in the natural world than you might expect: suicidal reproduction - where one or both sexes of a species…

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The series Spice Migrations opens in Sri Lanka with one of the world’s favorite spices, which once grew exclusively on that island. Traders priced

Which animal kills the most people? Hint: It’s not sharks, lions, or even humans. Introducing Mosquito Week.

Q: What happens to an unpaid debt that swells and swells for 500 years due to compounding interest? Would there be enough money anywhere to pay this off?

Here's another example of autolitigation, which like the story in yesterday's post is not new but is worth adding to the archive. Unlike the story in yesterday's post, however, …

According to her new book, "Songteller: My Life in Lyrics," Dolly Parton wrote and recorded an unreleased song that won't be heard until 2045.

A Japanese cat, which became a national celebrity when she was made a station master, is mourned at the station where she served.

Investigators are still unsure what sparked the fire in Crossville, Tennessee

Seleucus of Seleucia (Greek: Σέλευκος Seleukos; c. 190 BC - c. 150 BC) was a Hellenistic astronomer and philosopher. Coming from Seleucia on the Tigris, Mesopotamia, the capital of the Seleucid Empire, or, alternatively, Seleukia on the Erythraean Sea, he…

in linguistics, the sequences of sounds corresponding to the words for "mother" and "father"

Different plants give the honey different flavors. For example, Thistle honey produces a thick, molasses-y honey, while Orange Blossom produces a light, sweet, citrus-y flavor. (The relationship between wine and grapes is similar - red grapes produce red…

American musician and entertainer (1925–1990)

What 50-year-old dirty diapers can teach us about the potential origins of life on Earth.

Bematists or bematistae, were specialists in ancient Greece who were trained to measure distances by counting their steps.