Severance’ author Ling Ma is a 2024 MacArthur Fellow; here are some other famous authors who were awarded the grants.

Merriam-Webster recently announced its latest slate of additions to the dictionary—some 200 new words and definitions that, as usual, are an eclectic blend of ones you probably assumed already had ...

People used to believe that the blood of the freshly executed was a health tonic and would pay executioners a little money to let them drink it warm.

While squash and gourds are both members of the genus Cucurbita, they’re bred for different purposes.

Zsuzsanna Fazekas, a folk physician who provided abortions as well as veterinary care, was also an amateur chemist. She had a unique way of boiling flypaper in vinegar to produce arsenic. Women ...

Roborock’s S8 MaxV Ultra robot vacuum became the first robot vacuum to go to space as part of the company’s “Cleaning Beyond Limits” campaign.

We give you an obscure word with four definitions—one correct, three made up. Can you identify the correct one?

The gravesite belongs to Indiana native Nancy Kerlin Barnett, who died in 1831. The spot is considered by some to be one of the state’s most haunted locations, but the real reason road workers were ...

One such necropolis was erected on property once occupied by Father François de La Chaise d’Aix, the onetime confessor for Louis XIV—hence the name. ( Père means “father” in French.) The government ...

Every year since 1983, U.S. News and World Report has released its rankings of the top colleges in the United States. The list is a popular arbiter of academic quality, with many students turning ...

The freeze response affects people of all kinds, but it only started getting significant attention in the 1970s, when psychologist Gordon G. Gallup Jr. equated tonic immobility— the freezing of ...

Libraries are usually quiet, secluded spots. But not all are as peaceful as they may seem. These six supposedly haunted libraries are said to see more than just readers and scholars perusing their ...