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Concept albums are alive and well in the 21st century.

Some people love the concept album—and some love to hate them. But chances are you’ve listened to songs from one or two of them in your life.

The squirting cucumber can blast its seeds dozens of feet from the parent plant. The stem and fruit of the plant have been colored green in this image.

The little gourd can shoot its seeds nearly 40 feet via "ballistic dispersal”—but until now, the mechanism behind the plant’s power and proliferation was poorly understood.

Keep these tips in mind when discussing politics during the holidays.

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Super-thin pasta has medical usefulness.

It's 200 times thinner than human hair, and you won't find it at Olive Garden anytime soon.

Charles Dickens is just one person who left a mark on the holiday season.

Historical figures like Charles Dickens, Thomas Nast, Washington Irving, and even Queen Charlotte all helped create Christmas as we know it.

It’s time to play Tune Twist, where we translate the lyrics of popular songs into multiple languages and then back into English. Can you figure out what the song is, or who performed it?

You can binge Netflix in any room you like, but there are some key differences between these living areas.

Hip-Hop, Squatch, and the BrooklyKnight have all been retired.

Some of these former mascots were beloved—and some have been gladly forgotten.

The history of Thanksgiving wouldn’t be complete without mentioning Sarah Josepha Hale, the holiday’s biggest fan.

Emperor penguin released at sea 20 days after waddling onto Australian beach

A penguin named Gus captured people’s hearts when he appeared on an Australian beach not long ago. Now he’s ready to go back home.

Northern states, such as Alaska and Minnesota, will likely see snow on Christmas.

These Christmas-themed macarons are worth the effort.

You know a Christmas song when you hear one.

Sleigh bells certainly help make Christmas music sound so Christmassy. But it’s a little more complicated than just that.

See if you can guess which of these unusual items were on the McDonald’s menu at one time, and which we made up.

Fences have a little something to do with it.

To get to the answer, we need to discuss Latin, wooden stakes, Catherine the Great, and, of course, Shakespeare.

An exact replica of some of the drawings in Chauvet Cave, including the quartet of horses and a woolly rhinoceros.

The Chauvet Cave paintings are tens of thousands of years old and depict iconic animals that are now extinct. Even Werner Herzog was impressed.

Solving the etymological mysteries of 'innocent,' 'disgruntled,' and other prefix-dependent words.

Most of the time, though, it'll cost you.

Looking to buy your way into citizenship? Discover the differences between golden visas and CIPs, plus which countries are easiest to get into right now.

In the pantheon of SNL sketches-turned-feature films, there are good ideas (‘Wayne’s World’), bad ideas (‘It’s Pat’), and batted-about ideas that never made it to the silver screen.

An eagle pair in Alaska tend to their gigantic nest.

The 20-year-old nest that starred in the state agency’s first livecam was destroyed by a snowstorm. Now, viewers can tune into watch another eagle pair raise their family at a new spot.