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At the Suvarnabhumi International Airport in Thailand, authorities stopped a man with some turtles. Fifty-four ploughshare tortoises and twenty-one radiated tortoises, to be exact
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Recent plagues of dead animals floating down China's rivers may be due to farmers evading heightened environmental regulations
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Hidden beneath the Palazzo Venezia, Benito Mussolini's World War II bunker
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What started as a quirky hobby, has turned into a national bill hunt that's useful for all sorts of people - like physicists
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A brand new pterosaur and a 300-million year old crab, the fossil finds of kids
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Locals and environmentalists are happy about the decision, but others warn that the new monuments arrive just in time for the sequester's budget cuts
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Since most of us don't see emergency medicine all that often, we tend to have an unrealistic idea about just how end of life care works
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The school was just stripped of four quiz bowl championships, after evidence surfaced that some of its students might have sneaked a peak at the questions before hand
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It was snowing so hard that they had to use a bright yellow ball to even see what was going on
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The defense contractor will be the first company to use quantum computers on a commercial scale
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Even knowledgable fans aren't great at making predictions, so quantum physics may be the surest way to cash in on the madness
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While there are simply too many locusts to eat the swarm out of existence, Israelis who do tuck in can enjoy a healthy, kosher snack
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Robot-only internet! Self-teaching robots!
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It has to do with the dry winter air, says new research
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A natural substance found in olive oil called oleocanthal helps to block and destroy plaque build up in the brain that causes Alzheimer's
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This may be because women have some many career options these days, researchers write, or maybe it's just sexism
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Called the Order of the Good Death, the club is full of artists, writers, film makers, musicians and other creative types
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Time to find a new brain teaser - the chicken and egg question has been solved. The egg wins
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The American Academy of Pediatrics says that allowing a child's parents to marry is good for kids
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But why do we require music to work out? And what kind of music is best?
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