Category: General

People have been searching for the key to happiness at least as long as recorded history. Now, researchers have found that their is no single, uniform solution. A study in the journal Nature Human Behavior shows that happiness can come from…

A Russian spacecraft that launched more than 50 years ago will finally crash back down to Earth, but nobody knows where it will land or even if it will fully break apart upon reentry.

Kosmos 482, a chunk of a Cold War-era spacecraft…

Earlobes may seem like a simple, often overlooked, part of our anatomy, but they serve a few interesting purposes.

Some people think earlobes improve our ability to detect sound, because the fleshy lower part of the ear helps to funnel sound…

There might still be dinosaurs living on Earth today — if not for the giant asteroid….

We typically associate mummies with ancient Egypt — or sometimes cheesy old horror movies. Now a newly described mummy from an unexpected place — Austria — details in the journal Frontiers in Medicine a previously unknown embalming…

Tim Friede, a Wisconsin resident with a long-standing fascination for venomous creatures, has…

Have you ever hesitated to treat yourself to a tuna steak or a colorful sushi plate because of concerns about mercury and other heavy metals? You’re not alone — and your caution is justified. Considered one of the top ten chemicals of public…

Do nonhuman animals live in a kind of eternal present, or are they aware of the passage of time? That question has been debated by scientists for decades. 

Most experts agree that animals have some way of measuring time, but how their brains…

In 1958, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) made a milestone announcement: they had exterminated the mosquito Aedes aegypti–a transmitter of…

Hieroglyphics carved on the famous ancient Egyptian Obelisk in Paris could be propaganda…