BIG QUESTIONS

Easter always happens sometime in March or April—but the date is never the same each year.

Tariffs are a means for one country to wrangle better trade terms with another country and to protect domestic manufacturing. Unfortunately, they don’t always deliver.

Misunderstanding room temperature can have some surprisingly serious consequences.

Hubcaps might seem purely decorative, but they serve an important purpose for your car.

Here's what’s happening in your body when you eat ice cream or drink a chilled beverage too fast.

To predict quakes, scientists have to understand how they occur, what happens just before and during the start of one, and whether it shows signs that movement is imminent. So far, none of those things is known.

Athletes are embracing a new kind of performance enhancer.

Maligning ponies has become a go-to way to dismiss someone. How did that happen?

Sleeping in your birthday suit may feel good, but is it good for you?

Common household cleaning products like dish soap and laundry detergent might get forgotten about for years before being found and used. Will they still be effective?

People have been observing faces and figures on the moon for hundreds (if not thousands) of years. There’s a perfectly scientific explanation as to why.

For years, couples have dedicated that finger to romance when any other digit would do.