After escaping during a 2023 vacation, miniature dachshund Valerie survived in the wilderness alone for over a year.

A 2024 meta-analysis found that microplastics and nanoplastics could be identified in bee guts outside of control settings. The contaminants disrupted their ability to pollinate; the analysis also ...

Coming up with a name for a band can be challenging, and not all first choices stick. Green Day originally performed under the name Sweet Children. They changed it to Green Day to avoid confusion with ...

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, duffel came into English from Dutch in the 1600s, and the first printed use of ...

If it wasn’t for John Kennedy Toole’s mom, his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel would likely have been lost to time.

Welcome to Kennections, a weekly quiz created by ‘Jeopardy!’ host and champion Ken Jennings. Welcome to Kennections, a weekly ...

In the latest Pokémon-shaped snack news, a “Pikacheeto” is selling for over $2500. Cheetos shaped like Super Mario and ...

Vonnegut mentioned his “canary-bird-in-the-coal-mine theory” again in a 1973 interview with Playboy. Artists, he explained, ...

Chattanooga has come a long way from being one of the most polluted cities in the country to the U.S.’s first National Park ...

Hawaii is the easiest state to drive in, earning a score of 9.4. This might be because the Aloha State has some of the lowest maximum speed limits: They never exceed 50 miles per hour on rural ...

Use this map from the University of Connecticut to check if 17-year periodical cicadas will appear in your neighborhood soon.

You can help the LEGO xylophone become official by clicking the “Support Idea” button on the site. And to see how Huang ...