There’s a reason they call it “practicing medicine .” Treating illness is an imperfect pursuit, with plenty of trial and ...

Welcome to Kennections, a weekly quiz created by Jeopardy! host and champion Ken Jennings. Here's how to play: All five answers to the questions below have something in common. Can you figure it out?

Hold onto your hat, because little is known about the real origin of the phrase. Here’s what we do know.

On some ships, however, Oscar Oscar Oscar actually means “person overboard”—and that’s just one example of how code words are used in various industries and situations in the modern world. But ...

Legend has it that a heroic American commander at the Battle of Bunker Hill implored his men to hold their fire until their ...

In spring 1863, The Atlantic published a feature on Sojourner Truth written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, which inspired activist ...

The United States is short on educators. According to estimates from Brown University, there are roughly 55,000 vacant K-12 ...

Coyotes ( Canis latrans) and wolves ( Canis lupus) are two closely related species from the dog (Canidae) family. Though they ...

Elephants demonstrate complex behaviors that researchers have associated with empathy and mourning, pointing to the animals’ ...

Avid doers of The New York Times crossword now have the chance to be on the other side of the puzzle: Its editors are ...

Inflation plays a role, of course, but there’s another major reason behind the spike in high vet costs: clinics going corporate. Many vet practices and hospitals that were previously independently ...

If you want to make your money really stretch this month, you might have to wait until Memorial Day weekend (but the discounts will be worth it).