During the Cold War, both the West and East Germany film industries made popular westerns. Yes, westerns. What was that all about?

It's easy to write off charisma as a superficial quality. Yet, studies have proven that charisma is in fact an integral element of good leadership.

Buon fresco, perhaps the best-known kind of wall painting, is the result of a chemical reaction turning paint and wet plaster into a single, solid surface.

Why airborne farming hasn’t been cleared for take-off.

Are there serious adverse effects to injecting industrial paint under your skin? Nobody really knows. The inks used are not FDA-approved.

King of Horror Stephen King celebrates his 70th birthday. Will he finally get the respect he deserves from academia and the culture industry?

Even three decades after “hysteria” was deleted from the DSM-III, some of the word’s diagnostic power obviously still remains.

What's an illegal alien? The idea that the most important question about immigrants is their legal status is a relatively new one.

Will cutting fewer forests, where tick hosts and their predators live, help curb Lyme disease? Scientists debate.

Early credit reporting companies urged people to “Treat their credit as a sacred trust” and argued that keeping a good credit record was a moral concern.