Some of these facts sound like science fiction. Others feel like glitches in the system. All of them are real. Here are 20 ...

A new strain that dominated the early winter was not well matched to the vaccine, leading to an intense early onslaught of flu.

Welcome to the wonderfully absurd world of hilariously useless facts! You know those random tidbits that serve absolutely no practical purpose but somehow ...

The universe is a place of unimaginable beauty and wonder—shimmering galaxies that dance across the cosmic stage, nebulae ...

Melrose Place had "radical" political messages hidden within the fake products and art created for the show. Between 1995 and 1997, a group of artists led by Mel Chin — calling themselves the GALA ...

Most people know only two things about the appendix: You don’t need it – and if it bursts, you need surgery fast. That basic story traces back at least to Charles Darwin, the English naturalist who ...

The film navigates the question every disabled person and their family eventually faces: What happens when the people who ...

The best way to learn something is to experience it. Even in relationships, you can read advice or watch romantic movies, thinking they'll teach you what to expect, but it’s not the same as feeling ...

I’m sitting here trying to think of something funny to write, but my son and I have spent the entire last week in the deathly grips of the Please-Just-Kill-Me-Now Flu. This means my humorous ...

Okuma is the closest town to the three nuclear reactors that melted down at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant on March 11, 2011. On that day, a 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami destroyed the ...

It’s not your grandfather’s South by Southwest Music Festival. But with any luck, granddad would still find something to latch onto in this, the fest’s 40th anniversary year, even as the music ...

If watching The Pitt is giving you a renewed interest in the human body in all of its gory glory, there’s a new tool that will help satisfy your curiosity. An international team of scientists ...