What’s Behind Russia’s Revival of a Soviet-Era Song Contest?
At the Applebee’s test kitchen in Kansas City, Mo., nine full-time chefs collaborate to create that certain “menu magic” that entices millions of diners every year. The ultimate test is...
At the Applebee’s test kitchen in Kansas City, Mo., nine full-time chefs collaborate to create that certain “menu magic” that entices millions of diners every year. The ultimate test is...
Research shows that 30 years ago, you had about about 17 minutes to escape a house fire. Today it’s down to 3 or 4 minutes. The reason: Newer homes and...
Former Guns N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan moonlights as an investment guru Business majors can party. They can get wasted, wake up the next morning, hit 18 holes, and still...
Will the 11-year-old “I’m Lovin’ It” jingle-an earworm if ever there was one-soon be just a memory? After all, McDonald’s recently hired ad agency Leo Burnett to refresh its image....
Eat your heart out, Lassie! Masha, a long-haired tabby cat, saved the life of a baby abandoned in the streets of Russia – after she climbed into the box he...
Can translation shape a presidency? As I argue in a new book, Found in Translation, it can influence the world as we know it. So, it shouldn’t be difficult to...
A recent in-depth study by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) of turn signal rates-of-neglect has yielded some surprising and somewhat disturbing results. The study reveals just how rampant the...
Raising puppies and cheetah kittens together helps refocus the big cats’ nervous energy, zoos have discovered. Mixed-species friendships are all the rage these days, even between infamously mortal enemies like...
“Everyone said he wouldn’t return but he has been coming back to visit me for the past four years” It’s illegal for you to keep wild animals as pets in...
When one reads a physics paper in an esteemed journal, one does not generally wonder if it was written by a cat. But such was the case for an article...
Chinese live-streaming services have banned people filming themselves eating bananas in a “seductive” fashion. New regulations mean that live-streaming sites must monitor all their output round-the-clock to ensure nothing untoward...
A San Francisco biotech startup has managed to 3D print fake rhino horns that carry the same genetic fingerprint as the actual horn. It plans to flood Chinese market with...
A new survey has confirmed pretty much every environmentalist’s worst fears, revealing that 93 percent of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef has already been damaged by coral bleaching. We just have...
Charlie Sheen has been making a bit of news this week with outlandish comments on TV and radio appearances, but his bizarre behavior is nothing new. In 1996, Sports Illustrated...
Once the FBI’s most-wanted cybercriminal, Jeremy Hammond is serving one of the longest sentences a US hacker has received – 10 years, the maximum allowed under his plea agreement. But...
While captive in a Navy program, a beluga whale named Noc began to mimic human speech. What was behind his attempt to talk to us? Millions of years before we...
As you get ready to take in Super Bowl ads, let this 1996 “CBS Evening News” story serve as a reminder to not believe every spot you see – especially...
Chance is a strange thing. Over the course of history, truly astonishing things have happened – the man who won the lottery twice in one day, or the woman who...
The Biosphere 2 project was created as a research tool for scientists to study Earth’s living systems, and it allowed scientists to play with farming and innovation in a way...
Philosopher and mathematician René Descartes is regarded as the father of modern philosophy for defining a starting point for existence, “I think; therefore I am.” Synopsis René Descartes was born...