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Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are envisioning a toilet that can analyze urine for indicators of disease.

There’s a specific term for these irregular pearls: “baroque,” from the Portuguese barroco.

If you were reading Bradford's version of events, you might think that the survival of the Pilgrims' settlements was often in danger.

The Comte de Buffon's thirty-six volume Natural History claimed that America was a land of degeneracy. That enraged Thomas Jefferson.

Early scientific results on transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) show promise, but are they enough to support a multi-billion-dollar industry?

Looking to avoid politics at the holiday dinner table? Food trivia, ground-up mummy pigment, and snake jaws ought to do the trick.

Well-researched stories from The American Prospect, The New Yorker, and other great publications.

Tofu Turkey was created in 1990, but some Americans celebrated Thanksgiving with veggie dishes over a century ago.

Climategate began with the leaking of emails sent to and from climate scientists. Climate skeptics quickly seized on just a few of them