In Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, scientists have identified a new species of miniature orange frogs belonging to the genus ...

In the worldview of the Aztecs, who lived in Central Mexico from the 14th to 16th centuries, the history of the world was a ...

Epidemics, volcanic eruptions, famine, and wars have always occurred, but some of them were far more terrible than others.

Jealousy was long considered a uniquely human emotion, but it turns out that animals may experience something similar.

Even rat poison has healing properties. Warfarin, now widely used as a blood thinner for stroke and clot prevention, was ...

Between 1347 and 1353, it claimed the lives of millions of people.

A wormhole, also known as an Einstein–Rosen bridge, is a hypothetical structure predicted by Einstein’s general theory of ...

The ancient mechanism of fear is activated mainly in the face of physical threats. If one person fears a predator, others ...

The Ennead (known in Egyptian as pesedjet, Greek Εννεάδα – Ennead) is a concept in ancient Egyptian mythology and theology developed in the significant religious center of Heliopolis in Lower Egypt.

Cicero’s “De divinatione” (44 BCE), which rejects astrology and other supposedly divinatory techniques, serves as a rich historical source for understanding the conception of scientificity in ...

Originally, Zwarte Piet was a frightening figure in Dutch folklore unrelated to the Sinterklaas tradition. It only became associated with St. Nicholas in the mid-to-late 19th century. From that time, ...

The Yule Lads, or the Jólasveinarnir in Icelandic, are legendary figures that are said to reside in the mountains and make an appearance in the town 13 nights before Yule. They are all named after ...