Jealousy was long considered a uniquely human emotion, but it turns out that animals may experience something similar.

Even rat poison has healing properties. Warfarin, now widely used as a blood thinner for stroke and clot prevention, was ...

In Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, scientists have identified a new species of miniature orange frogs belonging to the genus ...

Between 1347 and 1353, it claimed the lives of millions of people.

A wormhole, also known as an Einstein–Rosen bridge, is a hypothetical structure predicted by Einstein’s general theory of ...

The ancient mechanism of fear is activated mainly in the face of physical threats. If one person fears a predator, others ...

The Ennead (known in Egyptian as pesedjet, Greek Εννεάδα – Ennead) is a concept in ancient Egyptian mythology and theology developed in the significant religious center of Heliopolis in Lower Egypt.

Cicero’s “De divinatione” (44 BCE), which rejects astrology and other supposedly divinatory techniques, serves as a rich historical source for understanding the conception of scientificity in ...

The Yule Lads, or the Jólasveinarnir in Icelandic, are legendary figures that are said to reside in the mountains and make an appearance in the town 13 nights before Yule. They are all named after ...

Originally, Zwarte Piet was a frightening figure in Dutch folklore unrelated to the Sinterklaas tradition. It only became associated with St. Nicholas in the mid-to-late 19th century. From that time, ...

Drafted in 1789, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen is a text that sets out the natural and inalienable rights of individuals.

Protestant missionaries brought Christmas to Hawaii in 1820. During the year 1786, when the Hawaiian island of Kauai was moored, George Dixon, the captain of the commercial ship Queen Charlotte, ...