Drivers in Alabama will soon be greeted with the slogan "Welcome to Sweet Home Alabama."

Do you know what got black currants banned? They nearly destroyed a huge part of American forests. Find out how this healthy berry became a threat.

British-American physician, inventor, painter and architect (1759-1828)

Hong Kong (US: /ˈhɒŋkɒŋ/ or UK: /hɒŋˈkɒŋ/; Chinese: 香港, Cantonese: [hœ́ːŋ.kɔ̌ːŋ] i), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and a special administrative region in…

Rosa Parks and rap duo OutKast have settled a lawsuit in which the civil rights pioneer accused the group of wrongly using her name in a song noscript, her guardian said yesterday (April 14).

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Conspiracy theories about 9/11 continue to gain traction online, two decades after the attacks.

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As if we needed any more evidence that the world is a psychedelic hellscape, RuPaul—yeah, that RuPaul— and his husband are making money off the fracking industry. Yes, yes, this sounds like a wild conspiracy theory. But we’ve got the receipts.

MIT engineers have flown the first silent, fuel-free “ion plane.” The light aircraft is the first plane to fly with no propellers, turbine blades, or other moving parts.

LON­DON: Per­haps it’s not up there with life’s most im­por­tant ques­tions – what is the mean­ing of it all, why are we here? – but don’t pre­tend you haven’t ever won­dered why some parts of your body are dif­fer­ent colours.
Why, for ex­am­ple, are our…

Remember when you could go through security without a boarding pass? At these U.S. airports, you now can.

vehicle widely regarded as the first automobile

pointed fastener with a locking mechanism, often used to secure clothing and cloth diapers

American rocket engineer

65% of the world's population is lactose intolerant, but that doesn't mean that cheese is totally off the table.

The Parker Solar Probe (PSP; previously Solar Probe, Solar Probe Plus or Solar Probe+) is a NASA space probe launched in 2018 with the mission of making observations of the outer corona of the Sun. It will approach to within 9.86 solar radii (6.9 million…

Ahead of Northern Ireland's clash at Windsor Park tonight, Joanne Fleming uncovers interesting facts about the rivals.

species of edible fungus

form of conflict that could happen after a massive nuclear exchange