Sure, he's a genre icon now, but George R.R. Martin was always, first and foremost, a fan.

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Test your Swiss knowledge with these top 35 Swiss facts – did you know Velcro and LSD originated in Switzerland or that the world's most expensive coffee is in Switzerland?

medical specialty concerned with the altering or restoration of form and function

Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper, Richie Valens a plane, and a snowy February night. There's much more to the story than the Don McLean song.

A diet supplemented with red algae could lessen the huge amounts of greenhouse gases emitted by cows and sheep, if we can just figure out how to grow enough.

A new generation of online games don't just provide entertainment – they help scientists solve their trickiest puzzles. Dara Mohammadi picks 10 of the best

A Texas woman convicted of neglecting two horses in her care has been sentenced to serve 30 days in jail — the first three of which will be spent with a diet of only bread and water, a judge said Tuesday.

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'Console Wars' is finally being adapted as a limited series.

The accelerated decomposition method transforms remains into soil and uses just an eighth of the energy required for cremation

Since early 2016, the European nation has had a law in place requiring grocery stores to donate food to food banks rather than tossing it.

Never-Ending Man​: Hayao Miyazaki is a fascinating, fly-on-the-wall documentary about one of the greatest living animation directors. It’s a film that asks the tantalizing question, will Hayao

Frustrated by a battle to open a store in New York City, Wal-Mart’s chief said, “I don’t think it’s worth the effort.”

While I was in Santa Fe earlier this week, I spent some time at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture researching Native American weaving, basketry, and ceramics patterns for the book. Pretty much every culture on Earth makes patterns—on walls, objects, or…

When the actor Morgan Freeman was growing up in Greenwood, Mississippi, there was only one movie theatre in the town.

China, Brazil and members of the EU have weighed the potential risks and outlawed chemicals found in US loaves

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The "Me" generation in the United States is a term referring to the baby boomers generation and the self-involved qualities that some people associate with it. The 1970s were dubbed the "Me decade" by writer Tom Wolfe; Christopher Lasch was another writer…

Wharton professor Adam Grant just unraveled one of the most pervasive myths about success out there.