The waiting is over. After months of feverish speculation that raised expectations in Silicon Valley to the point of panting, wild-eyed hysteria, an award-winning American inventor yesterday unveiled a device which, it is claimed, will revolutionise urban…

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In the 14th Century, the Mongols flung the bodies of plague victims into the city of Caffa. But did it help start the Black Death?

It’s orange juice season. More precisely, it’s the season of the Florida Valencia, considered the “Cadillac of oranges” within the orange juice industry for its deep orange color, high juice content and rich orange flavor. We’re so used to getting orange…

Let's say you have a lunch date to make – and it's on the other side of the planet. Wouldn't it be way more convenient to pop down a hole and take a 42-minute journey through Earth's innards?

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They may only make up two per cent of the population, but redheads might be even more unique than you thought. It turns out that there are a number of special genetic qualities that give those lucky

Contaminated haemophilia blood products were a serious public health problem in the late 1970s up to 1985.

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When video games moved from arcades to living rooms, a whole new industry was born as Atari, Sega, Nintendo and others competed to dominate the world's home...

For the past week, an informative Associated Press story by David Mac Dougall, noscriptd "Things you didn't know about reindeer," has been circulating...

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In positive psychology, a flow state, also known colloquially as being in the zone, is the mental state of operation in which a person performing an activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and enjoyment in the process…

Planarian flatworms are a popular system for research into the molecular mechanisms that enable these complex organisms to regenerate their entire body, including the brain. Classical data suggest that they may also be capable of long-term memory. Thus, the…

If the name Samuel J. Seymour is new to you, then don’t fret: you’re in the same boat as most of America when he appeared as a guest on popular TV show I’ve Got A Secret in February of 1956. By then, Samuel Seymour was 96 years old and incredibly frail –…

The monarch, who has just two surviving corgis, is said to have been keen to end the practice

In the Catholic Church, the Seal of Confession (or Seal of the Confessional) is the absolute duty of priests not to disclose anything that they learn from penitents during the course of the Sacrament of Penance (confession). Even where the seal of confession…

The Louisiana State Penitentiary (known as Angola, and nicknamed the "Alcatraz of the South", "The Angola Plantation" and "The Farm") is a maximum-security prison farm in Louisiana operated by the Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections. It is…

The Lunar Flag Assembly (LFA) was a kit containing a flag of the United States designed to be erected on the Moon during the Apollo program. Six such flag assemblies were planted on the Moon. The nylon flags were hung on telescoping staffs and horizontal…