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This St. Patrick’s Day, discover the origins of this old Irish idiom and how it all ties back to the Blarney Stone in Ireland.

Easter always happens sometime in March or April—but the date is never the same each year.

Tariffs are a means for one country to wrangle better trade terms with another country and to protect domestic manufacturing. Unfortunately, they don’t always deliver.

Aphantasia is a little-understood phenomenon that affects about 4 percent of the population. There are several theories behind what causes it.

Hubcaps might seem purely decorative, but they serve an important purpose for your car.

Here's what’s happening in your body when you eat ice cream or drink a chilled beverage too fast.

There are many slang terms for coffee, but where does a “cup of joe“ come from? There are a few theories.

Athletes are embracing a new kind of performance enhancer.

Maligning ponies has become a go-to way to dismiss someone. How did that happen?

We dig down to the root of the issue.

Common household cleaning products like dish soap and laundry detergent might get forgotten about for years before being found and used. Will they still be effective?

People have been observing faces and figures on the moon for hundreds (if not thousands) of years. There’s a perfectly scientific explanation as to why.