famous cat who guarded the gates of the British Museum

This is why your chocolate bar forms that unique, dusty film. (it’s still safe to eat!) This white film does not mean the chocolate is moldy or has gone bad. It’s just a scientific process called “chocolate bloom". What can you do with chocolate that has…

First brought to North America by Shakespeare enthusiasts in the nineteenth century, European Starlings are now among the continent’s most numerous songbirds. They are stocky black birds with short tails, triangular wings, and long, pointed bills. Though…

A research team exploring the Antikythera shipwreck in 2012 found several artifacts including this amphora, a ceramic jar used to store and transport goods. (Photo courtesy Brendan Foley, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) What is the Antikythera shipwreck?…

Though the brains of men and women are more alike than different, there are small differences that may explain men's behavior.

Madvillainy is the only studio album by American hip hop duo Madvillain, comprising MC MF Doom and producer Madlib. It was released on March 23, 2004, on Stones Throw Records.

He was the giant that ate backboards when he entered the NBA in the 1990s. Added to that notoriety were three back-to-back championships with the L.A. Lakers

Located in south-central Siberia, not far from the Mongolian border and surrounded by mountains, forests and wild rivers, Baikal is an immense and breathtaking area of natural beauty. Lake Baikal is the world's largest freshwater lake in terms of volume.…

British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942-2018)

Adult female discovered 113 years after only other living Chelonoidis phantasticus was found

AURORA, Colorado (AP) — Friends and family of the late “Dog the Bounty Hunter” reality TV show co-star Beth Chapman gathered in Colorado on Saturday where they remembered her as tough and irreverent, yet full of love even for some of the fugitives she helped…

passenger ship

American Jews' amity for Chinese food as part of their culture

Do you know where the word "january" -- and the Italian "gennaio" -- come from? From Janus, pagan symbol of new beginnings.

Fly me to the moon, motherf**ker.

Seventy-seven years after paediatrician Ingeborg Syllm-Rapoport, whose mother was Jewish, was banned from receiving her PhD, she has finally got her degree

1986 film by Alan Metter

GROSZ, TerryPERSONAL: Last name rhymes with "rose"; married; wife's name, Donna (a teacher). Education: Graduated from Humboldt State University.ADDRESSES: Home—Evergreen, CO. Agent—Johnson Books, 1880 S. 57th Ct., Boulder, CO 80301.CAREER: California Department…

Papua New Guinea police are hunting the leader of a sex cult that promised villagers a bumper banana harvest if they engaged in public sex.

Tom Hanks almost died while making desert island drama Castaway after picking up a staph infection in Fiji. The Oscar winner failed to treat a wound on his leg and it became infected, but it was only two weeks later when swelling refused to go down that Hanks…