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While the masses coo at Kate’s dresses and wink at Harry’s antics, there’s a world of colorful royalty that never makes the tabloids. From a crafty prince who scalps movie tickets for pocket money to a TV-obsessed royal who believes Star Trek can jump-sta
the mag|
Of the more than 900 exoplanets discovered to date—planets outside our solar system—none, not a single one, appears to be a nice place to visit or live.
Erik Sofge|
Light Warlpiri only has 350 native speakers, and none of them are older than 35 years old.
Erik van Rheenen|
They range from the grossly wrong to the freakishly prophetic.
Lucas Reilly|
the mag|
Erik Sass|
Although most of the early "X-Patents" are lost, we have a barebones record of what used to be there, giving us a peek into what America’s earliest inventors were up to.
Lucas Reilly|
Some plants have been slowly plotting their revenge.
Ben Eisenkop|
What's a Muslim in Longyearbyen, Norway or Barrow, Alaska supposed to do when there's no sunrise or sunset to guide their fasting? Starve? Fly south for Ramadan?
Matt Soniak|
We can’t tell you happened in Kate Middleton's delivery room. But we can tell you what it was like for other historical royal women.
Linda Rodriguez McRobbie|
After 83 years, the escape artist's collection of clippings about Spiritualism pulled a reappearing trick.
Erik van Rheenen|
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is about as American as it gets. Funny, then, that the book was released in England well before it hit shelves in the U.S. Funny, except to author Mark Twain, whose greatest work was almost derailed by a strange
Matt Soniak|
A science experiment 69 years in the making has finally come to a conclusion at Dublin’s Trinity College.
Maureen Monahan|
How did Howdy Doody end up in Detroit? We have the answer, in addition to what happened to 10 other props you’ll remember from childhood.
Stacy Conradt|
Just because some dictionaries have fallen by the wayside in the years since the world's first dictionary doesn't mean that they weren't any good.
Chris Stokel-Walker|
According to new research being conducted at the Center for Functional and Evolutionary Ecology in Montpellier, France, sex and time travel might not work out so well.
Will McGough|
From Florida to Instagram to Cristal.
Amanda Green|
Summer's here, and for many of us that means the season of squirt guns and Super Soakers is upon us. But this American pastime goes back much further than most of us realize, for these beloved water pistols have enjoyed a long history predating even the C
Mark Mancini|
Today is the beginning of the four-day comic book and pop culture convention universally known as San Diego Comic-Con (SDCC). Every summer since 1970, fans gather in the sunny city to experience the very best in pop culture.
Rudie Obias|
Victoria detested babies, childbirth, and all that muck. Below are some choice words Her Majesty had for the business of babies.
Therese Oneill|
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