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It's about the pulses, not the watts.

The Portuguese have twice turned to the humble pastry to solve economic problems.

Every year, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists updates the Doomsday Clock.

He was excited about the cold weather.

Police initially said the man had been pulled out by a current off the coast of Bulli. He says they're wrong.

And mice always heroes? Experts trace the history of typecasting rodents.

Fissures appear when groundwater is sucked away.

He influenced everything from Surrealism to the X-Men.

The centuries-old ritual started as a way to drive away evil spirits.

Meet Thomas D'Arcy McGee.

How Japanese women who married G.I.s got taught to be U.S. housewives.

Sugar blowing is a pretty sweet art.

For a brief time in the early 20th Century, cornmeal was unfairly blamed as the source of a terrible disease.

Quoth the raven, "You owe $25."

Once used to assassinate a Bulgarian dissident, the disguised firearm eventually became a trope of spy films.

It's the only such burial ever found in Roman Britain.

Drawn by hand, one sociologist detailed the whereabouts of over 1,300 active criminal enterprises.

It featured bullet-proof glass and a police siren.