Reinsurance is the practice of one or more insurers assuming another insurance company's risk portfolio in an effort to balance the insurance market.

1983 comedy film directed by John Landis

in karate, an endurance test consisting of 100 rounds of kumite

Royal Navy captain

military simulation game

By analyzing thousands of oak timbers dating from the 4th to 21st centuries, scientists have pinpointed the advent of a forest management practice.

Domestication shaped wolves into dogs and transformed both their behavior and their
anatomy. Here we show that, in only 33,000 y, domestication tra...

A 70-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex fossil has yielded soft tissue, including blood vessels and perhaps even whole cells, U.S. researchers reported on Thursday.

The Tower of Hanoi problem was first posed in 1883. Learn about how to calculate the minimum moves required to complete the Tower of Hanoi problem

Beards and long hair are forbidden on baseball’s best team. Here’s why that gives them an edge.

C-4 is in the news quite a bit these days -- it's a powerful explosive that's used in terrorist attacks all over the world. Find out what C-4 explosive is and what it can do.

Dark, cold and whipped by supersonic winds, ice giant Neptune is the eighth and most distant planet in our solar system. Neptune is the only planet in our solar system not visible to the naked eye.

Remembering the chatbot that was my introduction to artificial intelligence.

Australian and UK researchers grow brain cells in a lab that have learned to play a 1970s video game.

Robert Wardhaugh ran his first game of Dungeons & Dragons as a teenager in 1982, and hasn't stopped.

A civilian security officer at the Seal Beach Naval Weapons Station is suing the federal government for more than $6 million for an incident in which he was allegedly kidnaped and beaten during an exercise designed to test response to a terrorist attack.

machine which automatically dispenses products to customers after payment

common name for some marsupials indigenous to Australia in the family Macropodidae

You may be surprised by this Dachshund history. Find out why the "weiner dog" has such a long and low body plus much more.

American actress and producer (1932-2008)

The number of the beast (Koinē Greek: Ἀριθμὸς τοῦ θηρίου, Arithmós toû thēríou) is associated with the Beast of Revelation in chapter 13, verse 18 of the Book of Revelation. In most manunoscripts of the New Testament and in English translations of the Bible…