Isolation of a geographic area in an effort to prevent the spread of infectious disease or of ideas considered politically dangerous

A new report says strikes and outdated equipment costs airlines €300 million and accounts for 33 percent of delays.

In marketing, the decoy effect (or attraction effect or asymmetric dominance effect) is the phenomenon whereby consumers will tend to have a specific change in preference between two options when also presented with a third option that is asymmetrically dominated.…

Charles VI (3 December 1368 – 21 October 1422), called the Beloved (French: le Bien-Aimé) and the Mad (French: le Fol or le Fou), was King of France for 42 years from 1380, until his death.

word that contains letters of another word, in order, with the same meaning

hoard of metalwork

When state Fish and Wildlife agents in found a black bear passed out on the lawn of Baker Lake Resort in Washington state, there were some clues scattered nearby — dozens of empty cans of beer.

Bematists or bematistae (Ancient Greek βηματισταί (bēmatistaí, 'step measurer'), from βῆμα (bema, 'pace')), were specialists in ancient Greece and ancient Egypt who were trained to measure distances by counting their steps.

Blue-blooded and armored with 10 spindly legs, horseshoe crabs have perhaps always seemed a bit out of place.

The movie Rocky IV turned Dolph Lundgren aka Soviet boxer Ivan Drago into a Hollywood star. Exactly 30 years later the Fulbrighter Dolph Lundgren shares his personal fight worth fighting with a live audience at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica. “If you heal…

Prince was an icon of music, up there with Michael Jackson and Elvis. He died on Thursday, aged 57.

The Cheetah's body is built for speed. It's legs are relatively long compared to its greyhound-like body; it has a big heart and lungs and wide nasal

This is a list of the longest-living organisms; that is, the individual member(s) (or in some instances, clones) of a species. This may be, for a given species:

British writer

Running makes it harder to keep your cool and operate at peak effectiveness

news event deliberately created or timed or sometimes occurring spontaneously to influence the outcome of an election, particularly one for the U.S. presidency

NFPA provides guidelines for fire hydrant color-coding to help firefighting professionals rapidly assess a situation.

Thanksgiving breakups aren't just for college students.

Researchers make haunting discoveries while peering deep inside H.M.S. Terror, one of two ships lost during the ill-fated Franklin expedition.

person who works despite an ongoing strike