Princeton researchers explore how discarded orange peels revived a Costa Rican forest.

The Yom Kippur War, Ramadan War, or October War (Hebrew: מלחמת יום הכיפורים‎, Milẖemet Yom HaKipurim, or מלחמת יום כיפור, Milẖemet Yom Kipur; Arabic: حرب أكتوبر‎, Ḥarb ʾUktōbar, or حرب تشرين, Ḥarb Tišrīn), also known as the 1973 Arab–Israeli War, was a war…

condition of homelessness without regular employment or income

Newborn babies may be adorable, demanding and helpless, but we tend not to think of them as particularly social creatures as they come to terms with what this exciting and terrifying new world

Obesity is now killing triple the number of people who die from malnutrition as it claims more than three million lives a year worldwide, according to a landmark study.

The quest for answers in the murder of mother and fitness instructor Missy Bevers continues three years after her death in Midlothian.

First Lady of the United States

"In a very short order, there was a significant amount of dissolving."

It's a small and sometimes very bizarre world, as Keanu Reeves discussed the time that Alice Cooper babysat for him during an appearance on The Tonight Show.

Lieutenant Lawrence J. Franks Jr. was sentenced to four years in prison and dismissed from the Army after he was accused of enlisting in the French Foreign Legion.

SS Californian was a British Leyland Line steamship that is best known for its inaction during the sinking of the RMS Titanic on 15 April 1912, despite being the closest ship in the area. The United States Senate inquiry and British Wreck Commissioner's inquiry…

freezing of a human corpse

There's a rule covering how major league ballparks are supposed to be aligned. Few follow it.

The Lord of the Rings & Hidalgo star discusses horses, learning new languages, photography, and more.

Scientists are finally starting to understand the centuries-old mystery of “ballooning.”

Immediately after the detection of the theft, Roambee went into damage control mode and provided the police with the tools needed to track the GPS devices.

Goro Nyudo Masamune established the Soshu tradition of blade making. This page is about Masamune Sword and Blade Workshop, run by Tsunahiro (Masamune XXIV), his descendant, who carries on this prestigious tradition.

For 50 years before the adoption of the 19th Amendment, women in one state had full voting rights, and you might be surprised where.

Tenzing Norgay GM OSN (/ˈtɛnsɪŋ ˈnɔːrɡeɪ/; Sherpa: བསྟན་འཛིན་ནོར་རྒྱས tendzin norgyé; 29 May 1914 – 9 May 1986), born Namgyal Wangdi and often referred to as Sherpa Tenzing[citation needed], was a Nepali-Indian Sherpa mountaineer. He was one of the first…

Simon Lembi went missing from his home in Saint-Gilles in Brussels in 1999, aged only 14. Now, 20 years on, he has been found alive and well. His was one of the first faces to appear on a missing pers