From India to Thailand to China, even non-Christians are getting into the holiday spirit
Most people think of spiders as terrifying carnivores, laying in wait to trap their prey. That's mostly true, but sometimes spiders eat other things too
A startup called iWinks is attempting to commercialize lucid dreaming, or dreams in which the dreamer realizes she's dreaming
Hair work went out of fashion around 1925, but it was popular for hundreds of years before that
If nothing else, it gives you an excuse to sit inside all day drinking hot chocolate
Perhaps this time we can keep ourselves from eating them to oblivion
It all began in 1955 with Sears, a wrong number and a very confused Colonel
An entrepreneurial kid could potentially rack up on the gifts by traveling around the world, hitting three Christmas jackpots in one short month
Nearly a billion dollars a year is flowing into the organized climate change counter-movement
Cockpit recordings and modern mapping are used to show what, exactly, the astronauts were seeing out their windows when Earthrise was photographed
So the next time you buy a little piece of plastic with money on it for someone, you can thank Blockbuster
Determination is all that's needed to discover new species
Not only do gifts make or break relationships, they also tell scientists about society as a whole. No pressure.
Eight other cities (total population: 100 million) fit into the footprint of Atlanta (population: 5 million)
Of the 300,000 flowering plants known today, Amborella is the only one that directly traces back to the common ancestor of them all
This year, for example, we learned about just how much James Bond actually drank. Last year we learned just why Rudolph's nose was red
Toddlers are brats. It's science
The practice finally came to an end when the Spanish arrived in the 16th century and decided to make it illegal
With this little fish facing down extinction, a global hunt turned up a few remaining wild individuals
In 2009, doctors noticed that children who got a particular strain of swine flu vaccine were suddenly much more likely to develop narcolepsy
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