When the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock in 1620, after enduring a difficult trans-Atlantic voyage, they couldn’t have imagined what hardships still laid ahead. Almost half of the colonists...

Many people know that Napoleon lost the battle of Waterloo. However, what most people don’t know is that he lost it because of nails. That’s right, nails. You see, an essential element...

You’ve probably noticed that a lot of the big Hollywood blockbusters recently are superhero films. Everyone from Batman and Superman, to Wonder Woman, Spiderman, and Wolverine, all have big-screen...

Physicists have engineered the most accurate clock in the universe. It’s called the “optical single-ion clock,” and it measures time according to the movements of individual ytterbium ions....

Meditation experts have long believed in the power of the breath for lasting calm and longevity, and now there’s some science behind it. A new study at Stanford recently identified 175 specific...

Have you ever gotten one of those “too good to be true” offers in the mail from a credit card company? They arrive in brightly-colored envelopes proclaiming things like, “Zero percent interest...

How much does aging affect your day-to-day life? During a recent exhibit at the Liberty Science Center in New Jersey, volunteers got the opportunity to find out. They could wear an augmented “aging...

Passengers on KLM Royal Dutch Airlines may be surprised to know that on any number of flights over the past few decades, they were flying with royalty. And I don’t mean squeezing into a seat...

Losing a child is every parent’s worst nightmare, and it isn’t often that we ever hear of any good coming from a tragedy like that. But for Anna Lewis, that’s what happened last year. The loss...

We’ve all seen the monumental stone heads of the famous half-buried statues on Easter Island. But have you ever seen them move? It seems impossible, doesn’t it? Yet they didn’t arrive at their...