A country that gives its traditional dishes names such as ‘toad-in-the-hole,’ ‘bubble and squeak,’ and ‘spotted dick’ isn’t setting itself a high bar, foodwise.

Researchers who discovered the 30,000-year-old bug claim it’s the oldest known virus still infectious. The RNA of a tomato-plant virus was recovered from Greenlandic glacial ice formed between 500 and 140,000 years ago.

Baffled Westerners may wonder what kind of idiot could seriously believe his penis had been stolen.

Mao ‘was happiest and most satisfied with several young women simultaneously sharing his bed,’ Li writes. ‘He encouraged his sexual partners to introduce him to others for shared orgies, allegedly in the interest of his longevity and strength.’

Female humans are the only primates with permanently enlarged breasts, which has led to much harebrained speculation about why.

Who’d be foolish enough to invent a scale that wouldn’t permit thermometers to be reliably calibrated? In contrast, the freezing point of fresh water, as in an ice/water mixture, is constant for practical purposes.

A 27-meter replica of the Black Pearl, with room for 70 tourists, eight crew, and six bronze cannons was listed for sale online at $2 million but later reduced to $750,000.

At the low end, where we’re talking about beverages drunk from paper bags, chemistry can demonstrate what separates rotgut from decent stuff. Above a certain point, however, we find more useful insight in psychology.

If a brain transplant were possible, would the recipient take on the personality of the donor?

A modern hog-raising operation may house tens of thousands of animals, all producing waste, which flows into a vast holding pond and mainly stays there—when all goes according to plan.

The correlation between childhood lead exposure and adult violent crime is consistent across jurisdictions at all levels, including cities, counties, states, and nations.