A study of 17 people who have been blind since birth found that areas of the brain usually devoted to visual information become active when a blind person is solving math problems.

Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, KG, GCB, DSO, PC, DL (/məntˈɡʌməri ... ˈæləmeɪn/; 17 November 1887 – 24 March 1976), nicknamed "Monty", was a senior British Army officer who served in the First World War, the Irish…

There’s so much confusion over the laws about drinking alcohol in France, from the legal drinking age to where and when you can consume alcohol in public in Paris, that I thought it was time to lay it all out for you. Despite the Instagram photos and every…

American politician (1908–1957)

In the modern fable, the giant is felled not by a slingshot or a squadron of fighter planes, but by his heart.

MIT engineers have flown the first silent, fuel-free “ion plane.” The light aircraft is the first plane to fly with no propellers, turbine blades, or other moving parts.

Can you believe it’s been almost ten years since Prince William and Kate...

American singer–songwriter and businessman (1946–2023)

Zhou Enlai (Chinese: 周恩来; pinyin: Zhōu Ēnlái; Wade–Giles: Chou1 Ên1-lai2; 5 March 1898 – 8 January 1976) was a Chinese statesman, diplomat, and revolutionary who served as the first Premier of the People's Republic of China from September 1954 until his death…

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This Ohio State professor is looking into the history of Black naming conventions and discovering some trends that buck common assumptions.

Greek food made with slices of spiced lamb or other meat cooked on a vertical spit, served with salad in pitta bread

"God Only Knows" is a song by American rock band the Beach Boys from their 1966 album Pet Sounds. Written by Brian Wilson and Tony Asher, it is a Baroque-style love song distinguished for its harmonic innovation and complexity, its unusual instrumentation…

Howler monkeys can be well-endowed in the voice box or the family jewels, but not both.

Union Army officer, U.S. ambassador, and Secretary of War (1843–1926)

In the 1960s chemists created artificial turf. But are synthetic fields better than natural grass?

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We set a record-making fuel economy lap around the famous Nürburgring circuit in a Toyota Prius Plug-in which returned impressive MPG.

Nature - Estimates of global total biomass (the mass of all living things) and anthopogenic mass (the mass embedded in inanimate objects made by humans) over time show that we are roughly at the...

USS Chopper (SS/AGSS/IXSS-342), was a Balao-class submarine, of the United States Navy. It was their only ship to be named for the chopper, a common name for Pomatomus saltatrix, an aggressive game fish. Her keel was laid down by the Electric Boat Company…