Six tips to help you look beyond the hype and find the real winners.

The world has wiped out only one human disease: smallpox. Guinea worm disease looks like it's on the verge of being the second.

ancient, inactive river in Algeria

Video game skill correlates with laparoscopic surgical skills. Training curricula that include video games may help thin the technical interface between surgeons and screen-mediated applications, such as laparoscopic surgery. Video games may be a practical…

James "Jabby" Jabara (10 October 1923 – 17 November 1966) was the first American and United States Air Force jet ace. Born in Oklahoma, he lived in Kansas where he enlisted as an aviation cadet at Fort Riley after graduating from high school. Jabara attended…

Brazil's Emerson Fittipaldi captured his second Indianapolis 500 victory in 1993 and stirred up controversy by drinking orange juice on victory lane.

In memory of the Star Trek actor, watch him tell the story of the day Spock's bike was stolen

"Eighties" is the lead single from English post-punk band Killing Joke's fifth studio album, Night Time (1985), produced by Chris Kimsey. The song had been premiered during a three track live performance for UK TV show the Tube in December 1983. Upon its…

In December 1993, four months before the violence began, General Roméo Dallaire, commander of the United Nations peacekeeping forces—known as the UN Assistance Mission in Rwanda—warned his superiors that Hutu extremists were planning a campaign to exterm

The St. Albans Raid was the northernmost land action of the American Civil War. It was a raid from the Province of Canada by 21 Confederate soldiers. They had recently failed in engagements with the Union Army and evaded subsequent capture in the United States.…

This year, a record 106 vehicles reached Nunavut on a single cargo ship. None of Nunavut’s communities are connected by road, but the number of vehicles in communities continues to rise.

Back in the Cold War craziness of the 1950s, a CIA operative in the Philippines used the local folklore myth of the blood-sucking aswang to try and scare off communist rebels. Did it work?

Gabe Sonnier says his journey proves "it's not where you start, it's how you finish"

Oat milk is a plant milk derived from whole oat (Avena spp.) grains by extracting the plant material with water. Oat milk has a creamy texture and mild oatmeal-like flavor, and is manufactured in various flavors, such as sweetened, unsweetened, vanilla, and…

Online document: the full text of Osama bin Laden's "letter to the American people", which first appeared on the internet in Arabic and which has since been circulated by Islamists in Britain.

As fans mourn the death of Tina Turner at the age of 83, attention is turning to the special connection the rock legend had to Aussie culture.

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The British Post Office scandal is a miscarriage of justice involving the wrongful civil and criminal prosecutions of an unknown or unpublished number of sub-postmasters (SPMs) for theft, false accounting and/or fraud. The cases constitute the most widespread…

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