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. ...

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The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin took place on 4 November 1995 (12 Marcheshvan 5756 on the Hebrew calendar) at 21:30, at the end of a rally in support of the Oslo Accords at the Kings of Israel Square in Tel Aviv. The assassin, an Israeli ultranationalist…

IOI Group’s executive chairman Tan Sri Lee Shin Cheng talks about his personal journey as an industry veteran and shares some insight into the palm oil sector.

FARMERS whose cows die in the Austrian Alps are resorting to dynamite to destroy the carcasses rather than pay the army £200 to remove the bodies by helicopter.

For the fifth and sixth grade, King attended a one-room schoolhouse with four other children -- the kids who would inspire the characters in Stand by Me.

A large portion of the internet believes this beloved grandparent was actually a deceitful grump who deserves to be hated.

German traffic cops angered by British driver who mocks traffic cams with a Muppet