Yawning, in itself, is pretty simple, but there's more research on it than you can possibly imagine. One finding: Yawning can be triggered by a single word.

Personal vendettas played out in the names of hurricanes.

Video game skill correlates with laparoscopic surgical skills. Training curricula that include video games may help thin the technical interface between surgeons and screen-mediated applications, such as laparoscopic surgery. Video games may be a practical…

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Did you know that Mario was originally named ‘Mr. Video’?

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Find out more about this fascinating Englishman, from the job he held that involved sending people to the gallows to the cause of one of his most bitter rivalries.

Close Calls Never Counted Three people were killed in the 1981 Brink's robbery in Nanuet, N.Y., and Joseph Trombino barely escaped being the ...

Kathy Bates prepares to break James Caan’s ankles in the 1990 film ‘Misery’ (Photo: Everett Collection) If you’ve seen the horror film Misery, which opened 25 years ago this November, chances are one scene is burned into your brain: the moment when Annie…

fossil specimen of two dinosaurs in combat

Often heard before it is seen, the kererū has been known to fall out of the odd tree after too much fermented fruit

A child in Idaho is recovering after being struck with the plague.

Charlie Hall came up with the idea for the waterbed back in the 1960s. They have fallen out of favor, but a new and improved version is in the works.

'Pokemon GO' gyms are popping up literally everywhere.

Yamaha is primarily a company of two halves, one side automotive, the other musical, so what happens when you let them switch roles, and give them free reign to design whatever they want? You get the most radical MT-07 you’re likely to see, and a drum kit…

Darius McCollum has become an unlikely folk hero for illegally commandeering New York City’s trains and buses, in an attempt to fulfill his childhood dream

The Achaemenid Empire (/əˈkiːmənɪd/; Old Persian: 𐎧𐏁𐏂, romanized: Xšāça, lit. 'The Empire' or 'The Kingdom'), also called the First Persian Empire, was an ancient Iranian empire that was based in Western Asia and founded by Cyrus the Great in 550 BC. It reached…

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