“It’s celebrating something we normally don’t get to celebrate, which is fatness, and fatness as something good and positive, because the bears survive on their fat,” Katmai National Park’s media ...

People used to believe that the blood of the freshly executed was a health tonic and would pay executioners a little money to let them drink it warm.

2. Squirrels are very organized. In fact, they may be more organized than you are. A 2017 study found that eastern fox squirrels living on UC Berkeley’s campus cache their nuts according to type. When ...

One such necropolis was erected on property once occupied by Father François de La Chaise d’Aix, the onetime confessor for Louis XIV—hence the name. ( Père means “father” in French.) The government ...

It has been said that Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was among those who read newspaper notices of the Burnham and Lofty deaths and found their misfortunes oddly similar. Doyle dashed ...

Future generations will likely suffer from the loss of West Antartica’s Thwaites Glacier about 200 years from now.

Moo Deng has captured the hearts of people around the world. Here's how she did it.

Some of us are thinking daily about the Roman Empire—but are we really clear on the facts versus fiction? Let’s travel back to the time of togas to get to the bottom of some prevalent misconceptions ...

Millions of people in the U.S. are affected by mental illness each year. It’s important to measure how common mental illness is, so we can understand its physical, social and financial impact — and so ...

Whether you’re committing them or observing them, spelling errors are a fact of life. A number of people struggle with embarrass, for example, failing to double up on the r. The double-letter flaw can ...

There are several different conclusions as to why this is: One group of researchers suspects our shrinking brains mean we are in fact getting dumber. Historically, brain size decreased as ...

All of a sudden, like through a miracle, they found out it did exist and it was there." The Facts What's interesting about this is Trump's story about the claim—that he was accused of making a ...