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Penguins are champion power nappers. Over the course of a single day, they fall asleep thousands of times, each time only for a few seconds, a new study has found. Although animals have a wide range o...

It wasn't very long ago that women were first given the opportunity to study at Trinity College Dublin, which may seem shocking for a school that now has an even ratio of male to female students. Pro...

MISSING DARWIN NOTEBOOKS RETURNED AFTER 20 YEARS Twenty years ago, two notebooks, written by 19th-century scientist Charles Darwin, mysteriously disappeared from the Cambridge University Library. The...

Climate change is causing distress, anger or even anxiety in teenagers and young people worldwide, a survey of thousands of 16- to 25-year-olds has found. "This study provides arguments for adults th...

Scientists ran an experiment which showed that dogs can tell the difference between the smell of a person when they're relaxed and when they're stressed. Researchers at Queen's University Belfast wor...

FIVE-YEAR-OLD CAUGHT DRIVING PARENTS' CAR IN UTAH Five-year-old Adrian took the family car, and was only caught when police in Utah State stopped him on the freeway. A patrolman saw the car, which wa...

With her flaming red curls, Megan Clawson looks like a fairy-tale princess. So when she walks around the 950-year-old Tower of London, it's no wonder she draws attention from visitors. But she isn't a...

A great book might stay with us for a long time but, often, its cover does, too. There's a famous saying about never forming your opinion of a book by the jacket on it. But most readers know that we d...

METEORITE CRASH-LANDED IN A CANADIAN WOMAN'S BED WHILE SHE SLEPT When Ruth Hamilton woke up on October 3 to the sound of her dog barking, followed shortly by an explosion and drywall pieces falling o...

"Non, ce n'est pas possible. I keep telling you, it can't be done," the airline booking agent insisted. We'd been on the phone for 20 minutes as I tried to exchange a full-fare, exchangeable plane tic...