The concert that began as an internet rumor finally came to reality yesterday, as Metallica became the first major music act to perform in Antarctica. The long-running metal act performed an hour-long set inside a dome close to the heliport of Carlini Scientific…

Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826) was an American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, architect, musician, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. He had previously served as the second…

The male disadvantage in infant mortality underwent a surprising rise and fall in the 20th century. Our analysis of 15 developed countries shows that, as infant mortality declined over two centuries, the excess male mortality increased from 10% in 1751 to…

Prosecutors in the 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) trial have produced a document they claim reveals a $9 million advance to the producers of the Oscar-nominated ‘The Wolf of Wall Street&#82…

Mardi Gras is full of secrets, and the Mardi Gras Indians are as much a part of that secret society as any other carnival organization.

French actress, film director and screenwriter

Ivești Village, Vaslui County, Romania--Rifca Stanescu, a Romanian housewife, now 25, was just 12 years old when she had her first child Maria; Maria gave birth to son Ion at the age of 11, when her mother Rifca was only 23, thus setting the world record…

There are a lot of tall tales when it comes to Australia's fantastical fauna. We try to sort fact from fiction.

Since the Olympic Games began in Athens in 1896, wrestling (in the form of Greco-Roman wrestling) became a focus of the Games, with the exception of the 1900 Summer Olympics when wrestling did not appear on the program. Freestyle wrestling and weight classes…

Kevin Costner - Suggesting "I Will Always Love You" For The Bodyguard: Read more about this and other GRAMMYs news at GRAMMY.com

Fewer than 366 surviving North Atlantic right whales remain on Earth as extinction pressures mount on the critically endangered species, a new assessment published today in the journal Diseases of Aquatic Organisms finds.

example of metachronal rhythm achieved in a packed stadium

Ray-finned euryhaline fish related to the bowfin in the infraclass Holostei

Why does she have eyes like chocolate, yet his eyes seem to reflect the sea? From brown to green and “heterochromia” our eyes reflect our varied genetic landscape.

Rate of travel of electric current

American actor and television producer

The Sun’s mass is 1,989,100,000,000,000,000,000 billion kg or 333,060 Earths. This is 99.86% of the total mass of our Solar System, about three quarters of this

Infomercial salesman, director, screenwriter

ancient Roman town-city near modern Naples, Italy