In 1974, Frenchman Philippe Petit walked across a tightrope stretched between the World Trade Center’s twin towers

Calvin Coolidge, during one stretch of his presidency, was getting 15 hours of shut-eye each day, while William Howard Taft was known for nodding off during public events.

Data on American worker time off, productivity, holiday, paid leave, sick time, hours worked per week & per year. Americans are overworked.

Scientific Reports - An apicomplexan parasite drives the collapse of the bay scallop population in New York

Northumbria University fined £400,000 after researchers gave students 100 times intended amount of caffeine

Internet gaming disorder (IGD) is an emerging problem. Rarely, media reports about people, who have died during playing video games, but thus far no systematic, scientific study is available about the topic. We investigated such cases, looking for ...

Hear from Grant Imahara about his Hollywood Dream Machines, Energizer Bunny, Artoo robot, and the spider robot that almost killed him.

Why is a dollar called a buck? The term dates back to the 1700s, when buckskins (deer hides) were commonly used in trade on the American frontier.