Early in his career, Justin Schmidt realized he had a problem. Schmidt, a budding entomologist, and his zoologist wife had just returned to the University of Georgia from a trip around the country. They'd

Have you ever met an Ottoman? Or a Habsburg? Neither have I. Like a chopped-up Magritte painting, all that is left of the Habsburgs is a homburg hat. Yet in the 1800s, the Ottoman and Habsburg Empires

The history of fiat money, to put it kindly, has been one of failure. In fact, EVERY fiat currency since the Romans first began the practice in the first century has ended in devaluation and eventual collapse,

Incredible pictures capture a lakeside clash of the titans in Russia. The battle took place in Kurile Lake Park, Kamchatka, an area known for being a salmon breeding site Photographer Giuseppe D'Amico

Just because you never thought of a question, doesn’t mean it doesn’t have an answer. Woah, does that even make sense? The answer is that it does. But you never even thought of asking whether a statement

This image shows the hottest land surface temperature MODIS recorded at each location on Earth between 2003 and 2005. After a heat wave this past weekend, the US has had its taste of scorching temperatures.

The famed underground house near Flamingo Road was built as a spacious Cold War bunker, to keep people alive and entertained in case the Soviets wiped out Las Vegas with a nuclear missile strike. The property

Going into the office can be tough — we get it. No matter how much you do (or don’t) love your job, spending 40 hours per week in an uninspiring space of fluorescent bulbs and blank walls is bound to leave

Forever young. It’s rare that a long, technical paper in a biology journal turns out to be a page-turner. But it happens. A team of researchers published a thorough review of the science of why we age

1. Control over the mind, child abuse – Project MK-ULTRA Subproject 68. This may be a dream only in a nightmare. The CIA launched project MK-ULTRA paid Dr. Donald Ewen Cameron for Subproject 68, which

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What would scientists do if they were given absolute freedom. If you believe Hollywood movies are the worst threat to civilization comes from scientists. Worse than just the terrorists. It is from the

Over time, experiments investigating the ethics and behavior beyond. Unlike the independent experiments, when scientists do not wish to harm the subjects and be themselves in their role, there are those

We used to think that cruel and inhuman experiments on human beings were conducted in the concentration camps of Nazi Germany. Unfortunately, the truth is much worse-such experiments have started in the

Science is fine if we are talking about laser beams or space missions, but some scientific experiments look like a complete madness: Orgone energy Psychoanalyst and follower of Sigmund Freud Wilhelm Reich