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This asteroid is feeling itself, clearly.
On Monday morning, YouTube removed Infowars and The Alex Jones Channel from its platform, following similar bans from Apple, Spotify and Facebook.
Over 1,500 species of flora and fauna would be at risk if a US-Mexican border wall were ever constructed.
The hard part was keeping the list down to ten.
In honor of St. Patrick’s day and Women’s History Month, we present 10 Irish American women who changed the world in their own way.
Digitally restored vector painting of President Thomas Jefferson. Digitally restored vector painting of President Thomas Jefferson. Thomas Jefferson was the third President of the United States of America, the principal […]
In more than a dozen countries as far apart as Portugal and Russia, ‘Smith’ is the most popular occupational surname
The U.S. government has shut down 18 times in the past four decades, but this most recent instance has proven unique.
Throughout Europe, 92 percent of children speak multiple languages. In America, that number is 20 percent.
Francisco Cantu wanted to put faces to the statistics. So he became a Border Patrol agent.
Both the U.S. and the Soviet Union created secret cities to house the scientists working in their nuclear weapons programs. Both nations went about this in very different ways and with very different, sometimes disastrous, results.
What would it cost to move some of the world’s most famous landmarks to new locations?
“Global capitalism and local traditions are no longer opposites, they are on the same side,” says Slavoj Zizek. The traditions of anti-capitalist protest are upended by this fact.
A new study shows that environment, not genetics, determines behavioral patterns of eating in youth that persist throughout life.
On Sept. 2, a fire spread through Rio de Janeiro’s National Museum, devouring the historic building and most of its 20 million culturally and scientifically important items. We look at nine priceless artifacts and collections likely lost in the blaze.
Now is a good time to brush up on who’s on the ballot.
A number of important women are working outside mainstream media to build platforms that address the gray areas in challenging topics.
A new study performed at MIT suggests that children remain very skilled at learning the grammar of a new language much longer than expected.
1,007 people were surveyed about their political affiliations and opinions, and their music tastes to learn to what extent they correspond to each other. Survey results are shown as infographics.
The cumulative effect of plastics is taking its toll on the world. So supermarkets are starting to cut it out.
The effect of this trend will be with us for decades to come, experts say.
The Plasmodium Consortium seeks to get answers to America’s problems from slime molds.
Jamie Aten is an expert on the science of dealing with Really Bad Things.
There is more than one type of bilingualism.
What do hot dogs, the Vatican, and the Large Hadron Collider have in common? They’re all in our random fact roundup where we bring you some favorite facts about three subjects.
The Oscars has produced a number of controversial speeches in the past. This year will likely not divert from that path.
What history can teach us about refugees.