List of All Articles with Tag 'lifestyle'

The words ‘fall’ and ‘autumn’ appeared around the same time in Great Britain, but only one of the seasonal names is still used there today.

On a waterfront promenade lined with pink flowers and facing Manhattan’s majestic skyline, designer Michael Kors paid tribute to his late mother with a show honoring the travels the two enjoyed together

Dolly the sheep was the first animal cloned from a single adult cell—and raised a lot of questions about the future of human cloning.

The North American parrots vanished mysteriously in the early 20th century. Now scientists are closer to solving their disappearance.

“Roses are red / Violets are blue / Some poems rhyme / And some don’t.” —Dana Venator at the 1987 ‘Jeopardy!’ Teen Tournament.

Researchers have reconstructed how the Scottish city would have looked shortly before it was largely destroyed by the English army in 1544.

You may not know his name, but he designed all of your favorite movie posters.

Dracunculiasis, or Guinea worm disease is, by all accounts, pretty awful: A person with the disease hosts a parasitic worm that forms a painful blister under the skin that eventually bursts, allowing the worm to emerge and lay its eggs in water. Those afflicted don't just endure pain (although there's plenty of that); they also run the risk of secondary infection and permanent paralysis, and there are economic consequences to the disease, too.

The birth of our universe happened at least 13 billion years ago—and you may have seen it on TV.

This 1999 commercial takes pizza too far.

It's 500 feet tall and is being built inside of a mountain.

From ‘cakewalk’ to ‘no can do,’ the origins of these common idioms and sayings are surprisingly dark.