The record for the longest road train in history still stands, 10 years after it was set in southern Queensland.

Depuis le 1er janvier, la vaisselle jetable est théoriquement interdite dans la restauration rapide pour les repas pris sur place. Censée éviter environ 150 000 tonnes de déchets par an, la mesure se heurte à plusieurs obstacles.

French nobleman, revolutionary politician, philosopher and writer of erotic works

Learn from Cokeville’s miracle of ’86

In a new paper published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), “A hypothesis linking the energy demand of the brain to obesity risk,” IPR biological anthropologist Christopher Kuzawa and co-author Clancy Blair of New York…

Bots walk among us.

German Army officer

Turns out one of America's greatest enemies of the past couple decades was also a Nintendo fan. In news you wouldn't believe if it wasn't for the fact it came from the CIA, Osama Bin Laden's hard drive in which he used during years of hiding contained tons…

Ok, I’ll be the first to admit this one is a little confusing. After all, the whole mystery is more than a little confusing. So here is a list of the bits of evidence we’re talking about. The Ninth was nearly destroyed in a night assault by the Caledonians…

In Asian countries where the Buddhism and Taoism are mainstream religions, incense burning is a daily practice. A typical composition of stick incense consists of 21% (by weight) of herbal and wood powder, 35% of fragrance material, 11% of adhesive powder…

The ability to perceive thermal changes in the surrounding environment is critical for survival. However, sensing temperature is not the only factor among the cutaneous sensations to contribute to thermoregulatory responses in humans. Sensing skin wetness…

But actually that's a good thing, unless you want to spend a couple hours by your toilet.

American actor (1938-2020)

"Prisencolinensinainciusol" (stylized on the single cover as "PRİSENCÓLİNENSİNÁİNCIÚSOL") is a song composed by the Italian singer Adriano Celentano, and performed by Celentano and his wife Claudia Mori. It was released as a single in 1972. Both the name…

In the 20th century, anthropologists fell over themselves to study the “cargo cult” phenomenon in the South Pacific. But was it really a new religion—or just a Western fantasy?

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New Age practitioners and online influencers have created a demand for smudge sticks made of white sage, opening markets for poachers.

Research by 21st Century Fox, Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, and J. Walter Thompson Intelligence Introduction Related Links Scully Effect Report FOX: The Scully Effect In the late 1990s, one name was synonymous with a medical doctor-turned-paranormal…

A new study has found that mushrooms may be able to communicate with each other through patterns in electrical signals.

Janet, sometimes called Janet Airlines, is the unofficial name given to a highly classified fleet of passenger aircraft operated for the United States Department of the Air Force as an employee shuttle to transport military and contractor employees to Special…

The RMS Empress of Ireland was a transatlantic passenger ship that sank early in the morning of 29 May 1914 on the St. Lawrence River killing 1,012 of the 1,477 people on board. It is considered Canada’s...