British intelligence called Juan Pujiol Garcia 'Agent Garbo' because he was so good at assuming new identities.

 The fourth-graders were unanimous: Quicksand doesn't scare them, not one bit. If you're a 9- or 10-year-old at the P.S. 29 elementary school in Brookl ...

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Its large pit and fleshy deliciousness are all a result of its status as an evolutionary anachronism

The Falkland Islands are an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean about 300 miles east of South America's southern Patagonian coast. The i...

It is never easy, being the child of a famous person.

Insect and wildlife identification can be tricky if you don't know what pest is making which noise. Listen to cricket, katydid and mosquito sounds, among several others.

The number of men who had DNA tests administered for themselves and at least one of their children rose by 64 percent last decade, according to The New York Times. The DNA tests confirm whether or...

Flamingo 492 continues to defy the odds.

Pontiac's War (also known as Pontiac's Conspiracy or Pontiac's Rebellion) was launched in 1763 by a loose confederation of elements of Native American tribes, primarily from the Great Lakes region, the Illinois Country, and Ohio Country who were dissatisfied…

The sight of sheep grazing on the south lawn of the White House may seem unusual, but during World War I, it was a highl...

Primate cognition is the study of the intellectual and behavioral skills of non-human primates, particularly in the fields of psychology, behavioral biology, primatology, and anthropology.

The fleeing of a mollusk from a New Zealand aquarium has captivated the world. Here’s how he did it, and what it means.  

Plucked from a pit of grey clay next to a rubbish dump in southern Poland, fossilised turtle shells resembling the battle-scarred shields of ancient warriors are the world's oldest and most complete.

Gaius Appuleius Diocles (104 – after 146) was a Roman charioteer, who became one of the most celebrated athletes in ancient history.

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The Chernobyl disaster was a catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986, in the No. 4 nuclear reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near the city of Pripyat, in the north of the Ukrainian SSR near the Byelorussian SSR border. The…

The marble original is in Richmond, Virginia, USA. This bronze copy was presented by the Commonwealth of Virginia. There is a story that, since Washington once said he would never stand on English ground, this statue was supplied with some good ol' American…

The speed of a hairy frogfish’s bite is the result of a vacuum in its mouth that can suck in its prey in just 1/6000th of a second. It’s so fast that even slow-motion video struggles to capture it.

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"Word nerds will notice an eerie root word in 'mortgage' — 'mort,' or 'death.'"

We aimed to assess the effect of anemia on subjective sleep quality in patients with iron deficiency anemia (IDA).One hundred and four patients diagnosed with IDA and 80 healthy individuals, who are gender and age matched, were included in the study. ...