Shelley Duvall is no longer a Worst Actress nominee for her role in The Shining in light of 'extenuating circumstances.'

British musician

For decades, a rare disease crawled across Papua New Guinea. When scientists realized what was behind kuru, it caught everyone by surprise. But similar diseases can still be transmitted through food.

street name found in English towns and cities during the Middle Ages

Herodotus’ section of his Histories on burial in ancient Egypt (Book II.85-90) is an accurate denoscription of Egyptian mummification but he purposefully omits the spiritual significance of embalming...

American inventor and acoustician

American statistician (1865-1942)

mountain range

Aphantasia – being blind in the mind’s eye – may be linked to more cognitive functions than previously thought, new research from UNSW Sydney shows.

Brussels sprouts used to be scorned. Now they're trendy. And one reason for their renaissance sits tucked away in a basement storage room in the Netherlands.

While you may know Denny's as a 24-hour diner that's open every day, when the chain changed its hours for Christmas one year there was an unexpected issue.

Series of motor vehicle recalls of Toyota vehicles from 2009 to 2011 over unintended acceleration and faulty ABS systems

Who knows what could have become of the poo left on the Moon?

Tourism and vacation sites in ancient Rome

Olfactory receptor 6A2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the OR6A2 gene. It is Class II (tetrapod-specific) olfactory receptor and a rhodopsin-like receptor.

Cambodian-American physician and actor (1940-1996)

musicians who died at age 27

American geologist and volcanologist

It’s a well-known principle of economics that “if you tax something you get less of it.” Exhibit A: DC-area jazz musician Eric Felten explains in today’s WSJ how the federal excise tax on “cabarets” that was enforced from 1944 to 1965 at an initial ruinous…

Have you ever had a dream that your teeth were falling out?