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We give you an obscure word with four definitions—one correct, three made up. Can you identify the correct one?

Pumpkin spice can contain more than 300 flavors—and no actual pumpkin. Here’s what’s really in the fall favorite.

When you stop to think about it, many of our autumnal traditions—like scooping out pumpkin guts, asking strangers for candy, and wandering aimlessly through cornfields—are pretty bizarre.

‘Venomous’ versus ‘poisonous.’ ‘Hominin’ versus ‘hominid.’ Scientific terms can be confusing to non-specialists—so here's how to use them correctly.

It’s time to play Tune Twist, where we translate the lyrics of popular songs into multiple languages and then back into English. Can you figure out what the song is, or who performed it?

From moving stories of the Black American experience to imagined worlds of breathtaking vision, here are 13 books that had an influence Gen X—and help shaped the world as we know it today.

‘Tis the season for cozying up with a maple latte on a fall morning.

According to students, living in these dorm rooms is borderline luxurious.

Long-distance bird migration is one of the natural world’s most inspiring phenomena—and how we learned about it is just as fascinating.

How the series—which ran from 2005 to 2020—came about, its nod to a literary classic, and more.

If you’re not originally from Tennessee, tunnel honking can be a mystery. Here's why drivers do it.

Drivers are constantly being reminded to buckle up. The same rule doesn’t seem to apply to busloads of children.