Who has ever heard of heart or spleen cancer? And what about the appendix?

Syrian Brazilian Jewish banker

American actor and comedian

5th century BC Carthaginian explorer

The tiny waste harvesters use the Milky Way as a guide to roll their dung meals away to safety. Now researchers say the beetles take "snapshots" of the constellation and store them in their brains.

Adolf Hitler's abstention from the consumption of meat

From Princess Diana, Marilyn Monroe to Elizabeth Taylor, here are 8 style icons and their signature scents. 1. Marilyn Monroe: Floris Rose Geranium Like millions of other women, Monroe was a fan of Chanel No 5. However, in 2002, it was revealed that she also…

One of Saddam Hussein's sons took almost $1bn (£640m) in cash from Iraq's central bank only hours before the Americans started bombing, the US state department said last night.

New York City shipping merchant (1766-1846)

1998 video game

Joseph Gordon-Levitt appeared in a brief cameo on That '70s Show season 1, but it was part of a historic episode due to a scene with Topher Grace.

How long does the longest living mammal live, and how does the human lifespan compare to other mammals?

In most species, gender is determined during fertilization. However, the sex of most turtles, alligators, and crocodiles is determined after fertilization. The temperature of the developing eggs is what decides whether the offspring will be male or female.…

NASA has identified three processes responsible for wobbles in Earth's axis of rotation: ice mass loss primarily in Greenland, glacial rebound, and mantle convection.

Referendum in the Dominican Republic

This map shows the most dangerous cities to live in the U.S. in terms of the violent crime rate per 1000 residents.

Maybe you think one Earth is enough. But what if there were billions? Researchers make a new estimate that the number of Earth-like planets in our Mil

Famine in British India during World War II

During some severe storms, dozens of traffic cones lined up in Coventry to warn motorists...

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Signals from the brain’s fear center make it more difficult for anxious and stressed children to regulate their emotions, a first-of-its-kind brain scanning study from Stanford shows.