Peggy isn’t the only seemingly random sobriquet for Margaret. There’s also Daisy, which, like Peggy, turns out to have a ...

We give you an obscure word with four definitions—one correct, three made up. Can you identify the correct one?

Before the creation of synthetic plastics, patent leather was made by glazing animal hides with layers of resin-based varnish. The coating protected items like boots and carriage parts from wear and ...

Few things are more annoying than the build-up of an incoming sneeze—especially when it disappears at the last second without relief. Though it’s unpleasant, there are some occasions when you ...

Adult fennec foxes (Vulpes zerda), which live in the deserts of North Africa and the Arabian peninsula, are the smallest species of true fox with one of the animal kingdom’s largest ear-to-body ...

It’s been some 40,000 years since the last Homo neanderthalensis, or Neanderthals, disappeared from sight. Our closest human relative, the Neanderthal continues to fascinate scientists and the ...

A Bitcoin-promoting console. | Joe Raedle/GettyImages One highly publicized report from Bloomberg back in November 2020 stated that researchers at Flipside Crypto found that 2 percent of accounts ...

For such a small thing, the button has been prolific in terms of vocabulary. The archaic phrase it is in a person’s buttons means “it’s in someone’s capacity to do or achieve something ...

Scientists have uncovered ancient fossils, prehistoric artwork, and other clues to human evolution. Here are nine of the most revealing discoveries that have changed our understanding of our early ...

Japan’s geisha are experts in their field, but they’re often treated like tourist attractions. See why Kyoto officials have had to crack down on tourist photos.

‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears’ is a fairy tale with a long history. But Goldilocks as we know her didn‘t originally appear in the popular children‘s story.

If you’re a regular in the soda aisle at the grocery store, you may have noticed an uptick in zero-sugar sodas in recent years. From Coca-Cola to Pepsi, Dr. Pepper, and Mountain Dew, most of the ...