Death Valley, part of the Mojave Desert stretching across California and Nevada, is known for its extreme weather – but in ...

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Despite countless programmes and initiatives, rates of entrepreneurial intention – a marker of how willing people are to ...

On a stormy Monday in March, 1827, the German composer Ludwig van Beethoven passed away after a protracted illness.

A ribbon worm picked up on a Scottish beach in 1864 is thought to be the world's longest animal ever found alive. Some ...

In a study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, we analyzed 38 million obituaries of ...

"Most dementia research understandably focuses on changes associated with [age-related cognitive] decline in later life. But ...

The Beatles' song Yesterday was written in what psychologists refer to as the "hypnagogic state". This is the twilight zone ...

Exposure to material children never intended to see adds risk, and the design of short-form video apps can make this far more ...