James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

To play this video you need to enable JavaScript. We all remember playgrounds when we were children – slides, swings and climbing frames. But have you heard of the new playgrounds which are designed ...

Meet Mabel the Marshmallow, an all-white Persian cat who is absolutely obsessed with the family’s Christmas tree. If it were up to her, she’d spend the entire day sitting right in the branches.

Friendship is a lot like food. We need it to survive. What is more, we seem to have a basic drive for it. Psychologists find that human beings have fundamental need for inclusion in group life and for ...

The watermelons of our summers are not the watermelons of yesteryear, as demonstrated by a 17th-century painting by Italian artist Giovanni Stanchi. The Renaissance still life depicts a sliced ...

Fifty years after a fossil skeleton of Australopithecus afarensis was unearthed in Ethiopia, we know so much more about how this iconic species lived and died. When you purchase through links on our ...

I wish to show no disrespect to Dr. Jose Rizal, nor to his surviving family (one of whom I've gotten to know quite well in Barcelona) by addressing him as 'Jose' in this article. I am merely trying to ...