Catastrophic series of floods due to failure of multiple dams in Henan, China

Did you know that Germany happens to be the only country that serves the McDonald’s McRib sandwich year round? I bet that interesting fact about the McRib in Germany isn’t in your guidebook! Read on if you want to hear about how we chowed down on the McRib…

Steven Hayden Pollock was a mycologist who studied psychoactive mushrooms and published many articles on the potential of mushrooms to treat illness and improve quality of life.

Police concerns that media-hungry terrorists would attack Michael Jackson's trial as a "soft target" led to a request for federal help, according to FBI files kept on the late pop star.

Chandra has discovered the first direct evidence for a superfluid, a bizarre, friction-free state of matter, at the core of a neutron star.

Mexican-American singer, songwriter, actress, and fashion designer (1971-1995)

1928 silent film by Paul Leni

Moviegoers might be disappointed to learn that the character does not appear in Disney's reboot.

It was one of many dangerous government experiments on US citizens in violation of the Nuremberg Code.

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Far from being a sign of delusion, the so-called ‘illusion of control’ shows that we’re highly attuned to the world

U.S. Ambassador Shirley Temple Black was an icon.  She upheld the highest standards of poise and class, and will be missed. By the time Ambassador Black was assigned to serve in Czechoslovakia in 1989, she was already a seasoned diplomat who had worked in…

Ever wonder how the snow globe was invented? From Vienna comes the story of the family that made the snow globe a collectible worldwide.

Seawater is the secret behind the strength of the Pantheon and Colosseum

Doomscrolling (or doomsurfing) is the act of consuming an endless procession of negative online news, to the detriment of the scroller's mental wellness.

A cheap one-dose antibiotic treatment might wipe yaws, a forgotten disease, off the face of the planet

Bees indirectly led to the discovery of a secret pot farm underneath Dell’s Maraschino Cherries, says the Daily Beast.

For a six-ingredient food product, it's taken on a life of its own. Spam — the square-shaped mash-up of pork, water, salt, potato starch, sugar, and sodium nitrate — recently celebrated its 77th...

CIA program of experiments on human subjects

American actress (1964-1999)