Sea Cucumbers on One Coral Reef Drop Several Eiffel Towers’ Worth of Poop Each Year—and That’s a Good Thing
Slow clap for sea cucumbers, whose excretory achievements could help slow climate change damage to the Great Barrier Reef.
Slow clap for sea cucumbers, whose excretory achievements could help slow climate change damage to the Great Barrier Reef.
When you have a great idea, do you copyright, trademark, or patent it? Well, it all depends on what kind of idea it is.
You may know that Thomas Edison was a prolific inventor who revolutionized the electric light bulb. But have you heard about his creepy talking dolls?
Ahhh, the marriage proposal. Never has a tradition been surrounded by so much anxiety, planning, and the potential to be embarrassing and, well, even downright cringe-worthy.
After funding COVID-19 vaccine research and donating millions of books to kids, Dolly Parton definitely deserves a statue or two.
While there are some people who dismiss the romantic comedy genre outright, we'd argue that almost everyone can find at least one rom-com that resonates with them. If you haven't met your rom-com match yet, read on for 20 of the best of them.
There are many photographs of the 'Titanic,' but this video shot in Belfast contains the only surviving footage of the ship before it sank.
Playing a spot-the-difference game no longer requires shelling out for a subscription to ‘Highlights’ magazine.
Vincent van Gogh's "The Starry Night" has been reimagined as a blocky, 3D model that amateur LEGO artists can put together at home.
Julia Roberts movies are hard to beat at the box office, but ‘My Big Fat Greek Wedding’ has done it before.
Potholes are the bane of drivers everywhere. Unfortunately, not much can be done to prevent them from forming.
‘Watchmen’ director Nicole Kassell is set to direct. Whether she’ll use digital fur technology for the Cowardly Lion remains to be seen.
Although they’ve never been taken too seriously, boy bands have been a force ever since The Beatles took the stage on 'The Ed Sullivan Show' and the world witnessed female "hysteria" at its best.
A cargo craft delivering supplies to the International Space Station has been named after Katherine Johnson, the influential "human computer" who helped send the first Americans to space.
Thanks to the San Diego Zoo's live cam, you can see what America's most famous platypuses are up to in real time wherever you are.
Comics are the indispensable source material for a good portion of the entertainment industry. We asked a few artists for their perspectives on panels.
Sam Neill’s Marvel-savvy friends helped answer his questions during the movie, such as “Do you know what planet we’re on at the moment?”
In the spirit of Galentine’s Day, your watch party can only include movies about friendship (but it doesn’t have to only include gals).
Witness the conjunction of Jupiter and Mercury when the largest planet and the smallest planet in our solar system appear exceptionally close in the night sky.
This year, consider ordering your Girl Scout cookies online from Troop 6000, which connects girls living in homeless shelters throughout New York City.
The real life of Lana Turner, the ice-blonde goddess of the silver screen, was as dramatic and tragic as that of any of the heroines she ever played onscreen.
Laura Ingalls Wilder’s books are her biggest claim to fame—her relation to Franklin D. Roosevelt isn’t quite as well-known.
Your favorite ASMR playlist probably isn’t true white noise—or brown noise or pink noise, for that matter.
European explorers often thought of the Arctic as an empty wasteland, and the Indigenous people who lived there as childlike. But as one historian put it, “the real children in the Arctic would be the white explorers.”