In November 1859, the naturalist Charles Darwin was taking the ‘water cure’ in West Yorkshire and preparing to release his seminal work, On the Origin of Species. His voyage around the world ...

• On April 16, 2008, Benedict XVI celebrated his 81st birthday, and on that day he was at the White House, after which he attended a prayer service with bishops at the Basilica of the National ...

And since Festinger’s day, an array of new discoveries in psychology and neuroscience has further demonstrated how our preexisting beliefs, far more than any new facts, can skew our thoughts and ...

Mount Kenya holds many interesting facts about it. Here are some. 1.Second largest mountain Mount Kenya is the second largest mountain in the African continent after Mount Kilimanjaro. It towers ...

Polar bears aren't white, strawberries aren't berries and the Earth isn't round—we'll have you rethinking everything you ...

May 15, 2025 — An international genomics study has revealed that early Asians undertook humanity's longest known prehistoric migration. These early humans, who roamed the earth over 100,000 ...

Freakonomics co-author Stephen J. Dubner uncovers the hidden side of everything. Why is it safer to fly in an airplane than drive a car? How do we decide whom to marry? Why is the media so full of ...

We have compiled, here, amazing facts and stories from the life of ... This may not be the interesting fact you want to read, but it certainly is the harshest truth about James Watson.