45 years after photojournalist Sean Flynn disappeared in Vietnam, his letters go up for auction

Robert Pattinson, Andrew Garfield, and Charlie Cox have played superheroes on screen, but there is one more thing common between them.

Christina’s World is one of the most iconic – and most mysterious – American realist paintings of the twentieth century. The meaning of Andrew Wyeth’s painting changes dramatically when we learn about his subject, Christina Olson, who has captivated and haunted…

Brennan, born in 1852, is surely Ireland’s most remarkable inventor

During human evolution, the body changed in shape, partially to accommodate bipedal locomotion. Concurrently, brain size underwent a three-fold increase recorded in evidence from fossils and from comparative anatomy of chimpanzees, Homo sapiens’ ...

The Society Pages (TSP) is an open-access social science project headquartered in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota

The study was conducted to evaluate one aspect of the entropy theory of aging, which hypothesizes that aging is the result of increasing disorder within the body, and which predicts that increasing mass lowers life span. The first evaluation of the impact…

"Rubber Duckie" peaked on the Billboard charts 50 years ago! But what songs managed to outperform this Sesame Street classic??

Sadness and low levels of depression are adaptive since they lead the individual to try and make up a loss. By contrast, severe or clinical depression is not adaptive, but can be thought of as sadness having become malignant.

Rudolf "Rudi" Vrba (born Walter Rosenberg; 11 September 1924 – 27 March 2006) was a Slovak-Jewish biochemist who, as a teenager in 1942, was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland. He became known for having escaped from the…

The village of Eyam lost 260 people to plague in the 1660s - but thousands more in neighbouring settlements were saved by the villagers' remarkable decision to cut themselves off from the outside world.

Helping you understand What's Up With the Title? in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne - but, in a fun way.

AFE celebrates the history and legacy of Military Working Dogs this National Dog Day. Learn some interesting facts about man’s best friend (and fellow soldier).

process that creates new atomic nuclei from pre-existing nucleons, primarily protons and neutrons

President of the United States, 1885–89 and 1893–97

Wealthy American family

Listen online to Primus - Wynona's Big Brown Beaver and find out more about its history, critical reception, and meaning.

Koalas sleep about more than 20 hours a day. Koalas have unusual sleeping habits. Koalas are also slow and sluggish. Koalas remain asleep to slow-down their metabolism rates and energy requirements.