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?

Discount (or even grey market) electronics can be economical ways to get a job done, but one usually pays in other ways. [Majenko] ran into this when a need to capture some HDMI video output ended …

If they fail, the marriage is expected to end soon.Therefore, to avoid such supposed turmoil, people still perform this ritual diligently.

American bus driver defied by Rosa Parks (1912-2002)

General elections were held in Liberia in 1927. In the presidential election, the result was a victory for Charles D. B. King of the True Whig Party, who was re-elected for a third term after defeating Thomas J. Faulkner of the People's Party.

In December 1997, a tiger prowled the outskirts of a small town in Russia's Far East. In his book The Tiger, John Vaillant re-creates the events of that terrifying winter in an environment where man and tiger live side-by-side.

For the first time in over two years, Bhutan is set to welcome international tourists on September 23. Visitors will no longer have to join an organized tour…