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For much of the 20th century, hospital maternity wards featured a curious design choice: large glass windows that allowed ...

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Outdoor manuals, the U.S. Forest Service, and even Smokey the Bear offer several solutions to help simplify the campfire ...

Researchers determined the ratios by dividing the annual tourist population by the annual residential population. There’s a huge caveat to this methodology: The data points aren’t directly comparable, ...

Firefly populations have been declining, but there may be light at the end of the tunnel for the glowing bugs.

From the accident that led to its creation to the real people who inspired key characters.

The turn-of-the-last-century author Dean Rivers published several books of puzzles and riddles, one of the largest of which ...

A cocoon is distinct from both a pupa and chrysalis. It is a hard, silk shell that a moth larva weaves around itself before ...

Though English astronomer John Flamsteed was the first person to record observations of Uranus in the 1690s, he thought it ...

Would you pay more attention to an airline safety video if it incorporated themes from The Lord of the Rings? That was the ...

Christmas in July seems like a Hallmark Channel invention. But it actually has its roots in a pretty surprising source.