daughter of Roman Emperor Claudius and wife of Emperor Nero

Can an Alligator Live 2 years Without Food? How often do alligators Actually Eat & Need to eat

Four fingers has become the standard design.

#InverteButtWeek is here! Meet the scientists and illustrators who are spreading joy and knowledge about the backends of the backbone-less.

The statue of John Harvard isn't actually John Harvard—or even, technically, the founder of the school.

In honor of National Lobster Day, check out these shell-shocking facts about one of America’s most beloved crustaceans.

Fictional character and singer from The Simpsons franchise

Napoleon's children included his legitimate son (Napoleon II), two illegitimate children, and two stepchildren: Eugène and Hortense de Beauharnais.

The lawn appears to be a European invention, which makes ecological sense because the moist, mild, climate of Europe supported open, close-cut grasslands.

1868: Aboriginal cricket team tours England

The Daleks' Master Plan is the mostly missing third serial of the third season in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which originally aired in twelve weekly parts from 13 November 1965 to 29 January 1966. This twelve part serial is…

(1) Background: Fracture causes a substantial burden to society globally. Some studies have found that soft drinks consumption was associated with the risk of fractures. We aimed to assess the association in the Chinese population; (2) Methods: Data from…

Mercury is the smallest planet in the Solar System and the closest to the Sun. Its orbit around the Sun takes 87.97 Earth days, the shortest of all the Sun's planets. It is named after the Roman god Mercurius (Mercury), god of commerce, messenger of the gods…

File video of David Letterman on WTHR, which was then under the call letters WLWI, giving a weather forecast and hosting his show "Clover Power."

Pseudosuchia is one of two major divisions of Archosauria, including living crocodilians and all archosaurs more closely related to crocodilians than to birds. Pseudosuchians are also informally known as "crocodilian-line archosaurs". Prior to 2011, the clade…

The twins say they know one another’s thoughts without having to speak. “Talking in our heads” is how they describe it.

Horace Welcome Babcock, an astronomer and former director of the Pasadena-based Carnegie Observatories, died Friday in Santa Barbara.

woodcut design by Japanese artist Hokusai

This is the transcript of the talk I gave at the Tech4Good event I'm at this weekend in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The complete slide deck is here.