SCIENCE

From singers to scientists and athletes to activists, here are 130 amazing women who have changed the world for the better.

Think all there is to taxidermy is stuffing an animal? Think again. Since the days of William Hornaday and Carl Akeley, taxidermy has been a scientific art.

In 1975, a woman found her husband dead in a chair after watching a BBC sitcom. He had been laughing for almost a half-hour. Was it merriment that killed him?

Here's what you should know about this year's spring equinox, including whether you can balance an egg during the event.

The biggest tsunami ever recorded reached 1720 feet high—which is taller than the Willis Tower in Chicago.

How long is a day on Mars? What about a year on Venus? The answers will probably mess with your sense of time.

Elijah McCoy’s most famous creation, an automatic oil cup that lubricated steam engines on trains, may have spawned the phrase “the real McCoy.”

A team of dedicated scientists is raising eastern hellbenders and releasing them into rivers, helping these ample amphibians to survive.

Magic Eye pictures have been called “the world’s most famous—and infamously frustrating—optical illusion.” Here’s what might be going on if you can’t see them.

The U.S. capital might have been a very different place if not for the surveying work of Benjamin Banneker.

Love can have some pretty great perks: the emotion offers mental and physical benefit to our bodies. Here are eight aspects of life that get a boost when our hearts are full.

In HBO’s new series ‘The Last of Us,’ Cordyceps fungus has infected humanity, turning those unlucky enough to become hosts into clicking, screaming, mushroomy monsters. Here’s what you need to know about the real fungus.