When the ancient Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum were unearthed from under volcanic ash at the foothills of Mount Vesuvius, in the m...

The hominids are depicted as degenerate and slouching because the first Neanderthal skeleton found happened to be arthritic.

"Billie Jean" is a song by American singer Michael Jackson. The track was released by Epic Records on January 2, 1983 as the second single from his sixth studio album, Thriller (1982). It was written and composed by Jackson, who produced it with Quincy Jones.

In the 1970s the average can of soda weighed about six ounces. Nowadays you can buy one weighing 32 ounces or more from 7-11s and other convenience stores. The reason for this dramatic increase can…

    The average human retina has five million cone receptors on it. Since the cones are responsible for colour vision, you might suppose that this equates to a five megapixel equivilant for the human eye. But there are also a hundred million rods that detect…

The term 65 Roses has helped children understand cystic fibrosis for decades. Learn more about the story behind the now-trademarked nickname.

1995 film by Ron Howard

The toll of history’s worst epidemic surpasses all the military deaths in World War I and World War II combined. And it may have begun in the United States

Cuius est solum, eius est usque ad coelum et ad inferos means "whoever owns the soil, it is theirs up to Heaven and down to Hell."

The L.A. County library system is ending fines for young readers to boost book lending, especially among those from low-income families.

Confederate Army general

American corporate mascot

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inventor of the quick release socket wrench

Canadian ice hockey centre

A bone-marrow transplant treated a patient’s leukemia — and his delusions, too. Some doctors think they know why.

Review of decades of data finds kids of same-sex couples do just as well, but homophobia can cause real harm say child experts including University of Melbourne

Comic books – or at least Western superhero comic books – have always celebrated an idealized version of the human body. Male heroes are chiseled specimens of muscle with less body fat than […]

He allegedly passed himself off as a senator, then gave a lecture to a classroom full of high school students. Now, one teenager is facing criminal charges and one local school district is re-evaluating its protocols.

steel produced prior to the detonation of the first atomic bombs in the 1940s and 1950s, and so not contaminated with radionuclides