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We all know that the United States declared independence in 1776, but many of our oldest cities existed long before…

Tomiko Itooka, a Japanese woman who was the world’s oldest person, according to Guinness World Records, has died, an Ashiya…

Paleontologists don’t always get what they’re looking for. In January 2020, a team from the Argentine Museum of Natural Sciences…

On a recent trip to the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Don Pettit drank unflavored gelatin instead of bringing coffee…

The sealed rock fissures, some 50 feet underground, have been home to microorganisms for the past two billion years, the…

If you could take just a few of your most precious possessions with you to the afterlife, what would you…

Universities around the world have extensive histories. Fez, Morocco, is where you can find the school recognized by Guinness World…

Since then, strict no-smoking policies have been adopted at the Summer and Winter Olympic Games, with a completely smoke-free policy…

The honor of Egypt’s oldest burial site belongs to Pharaoh Djoser, the ruler who founded the Third Dynasty of the…

The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in New York, alleges that Tal and Aron Alexander sexually assaulted the victim in 2012 and…