There are a lot of toys today that have us adults thinking, "I wish they had thought of that when I was a kid!" But one category of toys has younger generations envious of millennials: the fast-food ...

The word “clue” has one of the most unexpected etymology journeys out there: from a ball of yarn to a key piece of evidence.

Everyone knows Cher from Clueless or Jules from Pulp Fiction, but what about the minor characters? They tend to capture our ...

Sweden, Denmark, and Canada ranked among the best countries for quality of life. See where the U.S. landed on the list.

The 1970s were far out!  This outta-sight decade gave rise to disco, shag carpets, bell-bottomed jeans (which have since had a revival), lava lamps, coin-operat ...

It wasn’t all that long ago, though, that crime-solving relied on some far older, far less reliable, and far more spurious techniques for identifying potential culprits—and perhaps among the most ...

So too does the word “tantalize.” In some versions of the story, Tantalus was a son of Zeus, king of the gods, and married to the daughter of the god, Atlas, whose name was Dione. Tantalus numbered ...