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You can buy over 400,000 products tagged “witch” on Etsy, from candles to spell bottles to pentagram necklaces.

Susannah Fox, former chief technology officer for the HHS, explains how technology has empowered us to help fill in the cracks of the healthcare system.

Anyone can have a bad day at work, but not everyone scores this high on narcissism, psychopathy and Machiavellianism.

When the great American tradition of the road trip meets the great Jewish tradition of the deli, we get the Great American Deli Schlep.

The quantum world is one in which rules that are completely foreign to our everyday experience dictate bizarre behavior.

The synthetic cartilage was made from cellulose fibers — the stuff found in wood — mixed with a goo called polyvinyl alcohol.

Mesopotamian beer was not flavored with hops, and it was probably on the thick, porridgey side.

The word “turkey” can refer to everything from the bird itself to a populous Eurasian country to movie flops.

With around 5,000 summertime residents, increased tourism, and a warming planet, it is becoming difficult to protect Antarctica from invasion.

Hubble revolutionized astronomy more than once. Here’s what we can expect from the James Webb Space Telescope.

Based on data since 2000 alone, global warming is still occurring at a whopping 7-sigma significance. How hot will planet Earth get?

Don’t argue with science. Just do it.

More than mindless bloodshed, the gladiatorial games were organized sports. Gladiators were treated as world-class athletes, receiving superior diets and medical care.

Parasites aren’t limited to just worms and ticks. Even some plants like to feed off others — and they perhaps could help fight invasive species.

The questions about which massive structures to build, and where, are actually very hard to answer. Infrastructure is always about the future: It takes years to construct, and lasts for years beyond that.

The prize went to three researchers who revolutionized the social sciences by taking advantage of natural experiments.

Pando, which is Latin for “I spread,” is a single organism spanning some 106 acres.

Outfitted with wheels and rotors, the bot can morph from a land drone into a quadcopter in seconds.

Scientists have been chasing the dream of harnessing the reactions that power the Sun since the dawn of the atomic era. Interest, and investment, in the carbon-free energy source is heating up.

“I watched closely for the sun or stars to appear, to correct my chronometer, on the accuracy of which our lives and the success of the journey would depend.”

Philosophers and scientists spent millennia arguing about the nature of light. It turned out to be stranger than anyone imagined.

The acceptance of our cosmic loneliness and the rarity of our planet is a wakeup call.

Our chart shows new additions since 1984 that have stuck around.

It has no moving parts and could allow us to tap into renewable energy year round.

Because Dylan “samples and digests” songs from the past, he has been accused of plagiarism. But imitatio isn’t the same.

By the end of this decade, Seabed 2030 wants to produce accurate maps for the remaining 80 percent of the ocean floor.

An analogy explains the greater fool theory: You don’t have to run faster than the bear to get away; you just have to run faster than the other guy.

The cause of Alzheimer’s is still not fully understood, but we might be able to vaccinate against it anyway.

A 19th-century surveying mistake kept lumberjacks away from what is now Minnesota’s largest patch of old-growth trees.

AI is helping us replace petrochemicals with natural enzymes.