How a pensioner from Gateshead paved the way for the multi-billion pound online shopping industry.

Weird rain is one of the more bizarre - and still largely unexplained - phenomena that is periodically (yet continually) reported from all corners of the globe. There have been accounts of frog rain,

Evolutionary musicology is a subfield of biomusicology that grounds the cognitive mechanisms of music appreciation and music creation in evolutionary theory. It covers vocal communication in other animals, theories of the evolution of human music, and holocultural…

Are you afraid of insects? Do bees freak you out? If yes, maybe you should see some photos of bees that sleep in flowers. Can you imagine seeing a fluffy bee covered in pollen? Sleeping inside a flower? Photographer Joe Neely will probably change the way…

torture device used for capital punishment

fairy tale

large number defined as ten to the power of one googol

novel by Stephen King

To celebrate 20 years of the triple j Hottest 100, we're throwing our collective arms up in the air in a bid for enlightenment and asking you: What is your hottest song of all time?

Since the day Elon Musk brought Tesla into the automotive world, he has been reshaping the way we look at the car-buying process. Traditionally, car dealerships have been individually-owned franchises. Automotive manufacturers supply the dealership with inventory…

This study was undertaken to increase understanding of environmental risk factors for PTSD and MDD within an urban, impoverished, population.This study examined the demographic characteristics, patterns of trauma exposure, prevalence of PTSD and MDD, ...

A common sight in cities around the world, Rock Pigeons crowd streets and public squares, living on discarded food and offerings of birdseed. In addition to the typical blue-gray bird with two dark wingbars, you'll often see flocks with plain, spotted, pale…

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If your house was built before 1970, it's very likely that there are razor blades in your walls. Here's why.

This year marks the 60th anniversary of the founding of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the 30th anniversary of the Alma-Ata Declaration, which for the first time called upon governments and organizations to include traditional medicine in their primary…

Syndrome where people perceive loud imagined noises when falling asleep or waking up

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Jeff Bezos takes the crown as the world’s richest man. His wealth has climbed by over $67 billion in 2020.

Some say the style of humor that the Three Stooges employed belongs to a different era. We’re more sophisticated now, and it takes more to make us laugh than slapstick. Does it? Find out by watching the short clip below: Perhaps it’s true that not everyone…

P. R. Halmos, The Legend of John Von Neumann, The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 80, No. 4 (Apr., 1973), pp. 382-394

Members of the 501st Legion Star Wars fan group were enlisted to appear in Disney+'s The Mandalorian, which was running low on Stormtrooper costumes.