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Each year, Gallup’s World Happiness Report ranks nations based on support systems, social trust, generosity, and more.

Scientists at the University of St. Andrews found that seals can detect blood oxygen levels, allowing them to plan dives and avoid drowning.

Cornell’s SpellRing could change the ASL translation game.

In the 19th century, 'inside baseball' only had one meaning—here's how it came to be.

What happens when nearly 900 dachshunds gather in one place? A world record, of course.

History is teeming with unlikely heroes—these ones just happen to have feathers and fur. 

The long-running animated comedy can stream for two weeks without repeating an episode.

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

Space shootouts are possible. The Soviets proved it.

The former MythBusters host and co-founder of the National STEM Festival tells us what emerging tech she thinks kids today won’t be able to live without—and what we can expect from the podcast she’s launching with fellow MythBuster Tory Belleci.

The country music icon spent years trying to get higher than any musician had ever been.

From "scrabbling games" to hunting hares, these old Easter traditions have fallen out of fashion.