Nine years after the right portion of her brain was removed, Christina Santhouse considers herself blessed.

The dog Laika, the first living being to orbit the Earth, lives on in our memories along with her lethal Sputnik 2 mission, on which she was an unwitting pioneer in the USSR's space program more than 57 years ago.

The fact that in times of war, significantly more boys are born than girls - also know as the Returning Soldier Effect - is still a mystery for scientists.

A government inquiry is under way after an 11-year-old schoolboy, Liam Corcoran, flew from one of the country’s busiest airports to Europe on his own without a passport, ticket or boarding pass.

In heterosexual relationships, women on average are having fewer orgasms than men — a problem that Dr. Laurie Mintz calls the "orgasm gap".

On May 9, 1945, at 1:10 AM, the citizens of the Soviet Union heard on the radio that Nazi Germany had signed the act of unconditional surrender, which

Some scientists think they have figured out the real job of the troublesome and seemingly useless appendix: It produces and protects good germs for your gut.

I've read plenty of crazy GPS stories, but this has to be the craziest of them all: a 67-year-old woman drove for 900 miles over the course of two days because of a GPS error combined with her complete lack of attention. Her actual destination was only 90…

From a plague-struck village to Wuhan today, quarantine has helped curb outbreaks for centuries.

A pair of movie tickets and a tub of popcorn cost more than the lowest-grossing movie on this list made.

Italy's Infamous "Monster Park"

For 90% of American families, Harvard is more affordable than their local state school.

They didn’t just buy ships and put on festivals — they competed to do it best

Sunday, February 2, marks a unique calendar date, as it forms a palindromic day — one that is written the same both backward and forward.

He was thwarted three years before Lee Harvey Oswald killed the president

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Television * Her character, Maude Flanders, may be killed off in upcoming show. She says request for raise was refused.

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The line, from the Hindu sacred text the Bhagavad-Gita, has come to define Robert Oppenheimer, but its meaning is more complex than many realise