Social interactions are essential for our well-being and happiness, research has shown. And now a large study supports that finding and suggests there are many ways ...
The event honors the feast of St. Francis, the patron saint of animals. Hundreds of people have flocked to the cathedral on the first Sunday of October for decades, ...
Science appears to be a step closer to understanding how the brain generates hallucinations, raising hopes that someday they might be preventable.
Television trends have hustled in one direction: toward ever bigger and flatter screens with the highest possible resolution. Bonus points if the TV camouflages ...
Duke the golden retriever was getting settled in his new adopted home when one day he grabbed a pair of reading glasses and pranced off with them. Then Duke moved ...
“Right off the bat, it’s a tsunami of coconut,” wrote one taster. Another described “toasted coconut overkill. ” Some detected banana (and some didn’t but wished ...
Two boxers stepped into the ring in the small Thuringian city of Mühlhausen to settle a centuries-old debate: Who can claim title to the world’s oldest bratwurst? ...
The question: Is it true that your shoes can spread germs to the floors in your home and make you sick?
So far, scientists have captured a cacophony of thumps, honks, burps and grunts. And they hope that deciphering these sounds will improve our understanding of aquatic ...
Border collie, Meeko, recently took a liking to an injured wild crow that showed up in the yard in Portland, Oregon. Now they’re “thick as thieves".
The runners came from across Kenya, lured by the top prize in the 3 000 meters: the chance to move to the United States and compete for a leading American college. ...
Through two world wars, from Yalta to East Berlin to the Balkans, the sight of American and British leaders together signaled that a predictable order governed the ...
This new attention to terroir is one reason undervalued Chianti Classicos belong on your bucket list of Tuscany’s collectible reds. After all, the wines aren’t the ...
Perhaps no one is having a better New York Fashion Week than Vivian Jenna Wilson. The emerging model and her waist-length strawberry blond hair have walked in four ...
I spent a recent morning immersed shoulder-deep in that humble hayfield with a team of Smithsonian scientists, and they introduced me to a garden of treasures.
Just a few steps away from the golden sands that form one of Ireland’s most popular Victorian-era seaside resorts is Kilcullen Seaweed Baths. Vacationers and weary ...
Sleeping with pets isn’t new; people have been doing it for thousands of years for warmth and protection from predators.
A mural by the anonymous street artist Banksy portraying a judge beating a protester with a gavel will be removed from the wall outside a London court, according ...
The detention of hundreds of South Koreans in a US immigration raid sent shock waves through the Asian nation and plunged Lee Jae Myung into the biggest diplomatic ...
Tens of thousands of worshipers filled St. Peter’s Square on Sunday for the canonization of the Catholic Church’s first millennial saint, a London-born computer ...
Most families have their own version of this, an intimate, group-specific dialect known among linguistic experts as “familylect” or “familect. ”
Back in the kitchen, as onions, garlic and tomatillos sizzled in a mix of oil and mezcal, chef Christian Irabién sprinkled in a handful of nubby, black abdomens, ...
Misty Combs and her colleagues knew something was wrong when they saw a large raccoon pacing in a parking lot near their office one morning. They looked into a dumpster ...
The zoo is the perfect place to observe primates in the wild: pushing their offspring in strollers. Eating pizza. Cooling off on a bench in the shade. Buying souvenirs. ...
Jeannine glanced at her left hand and froze. Her two wedding rings - a one-carat diamond solitaire and a slim white gold band with small diamonds - were missing. ...