You are most likely familiar with "The Girl From Ipanema." Get put on hold often enough, wander through enough retail stores or tacky cocktail lounges, and sooner or later its limpid strains will caress you.
Patents on software often grant ownership of concepts, rather than tangible creations. The increasing push to assert ownership of broad technologies has led to a destructive arms race among technology giants.
How often have you heard the advice not to bottle up your anger? There’s a common notion that suppressing your anger must be bad for your body, or at least give you a stomach ulcer. Better to let it all out, right?
How often have you heard the advice not to bottle up your anger? There’s a common notion that suppressing your anger must be bad for your body, or at least give you a stomach ulcer. Better to let it all out, right?
How often have you heard the advice not to bottle up your anger? There’s a common notion that suppressing your anger must be bad for your body, or at least give you a stomach ulcer. Better to let it all out, right?
A gambling habit can cost hundreds of dollars a day. Addicts often fool themselves into thinking they can win it back. But the facade collapses once their bank account is emptied.
Folks often shy away from cheese because it smells like feet. But what if the cheese was actually made from feet—or rather, the bacteria that makes your feet stink? Two bio-hacker artists decided to explore that possibility.
In Northern Africa, when a meal is spicy enough to make your sinus runny, the food is complimented for cleaning out the airways. That spicy heat often comes from harissa.
Bluebirds are admired for their lovely coloring and distinctive song. They aren't often depicted as hunters -- perching, watching, and swooping to the ground to catch their prey!
For their passion, a team’s most ardent fans are often called its 12th man, their chants creating and sustaining momentum, helping build a rally for a goal, overwhelming an opponent or distracting a referee.
Cities are often viewed as environmental wastelands, where only the hardiest of species can eke out an existence. But as scientists in urban ecology have found, more and more animals are establishing footholds.
At the Fire Lab in Missoula, Montana, researchers reverse-engineer spreading fires using wind tunnels and giant combustion chambers. They're finding that the physics behind fire is often counterintuitive.
At the Fire Lab in Missoula, Montana, researchers reverse-engineer spreading fires using wind tunnels and giant combustion chambers. They're finding that the physics behind fire is often counterintuitive.
At the Fire Lab in Missoula, Montana, researchers reverse-engineer spreading fires using wind tunnels and giant combustion chambers. They're finding that the physics behind fire is often counterintuitive.
At the Fire Lab in Missoula, Montana, researchers reverse-engineer spreading fires using wind tunnels and giant combustion chambers. They're finding that the physics behind fire is often counterintuitive.
Gremlins, described as tinkers and tricksters, often took the blame for inexplicable malfunctions in planes. Critics explain gremlin sightings as hallucinations induced from stress.
Gremlins, described as tinkers and tricksters, often took the blame for inexplicable malfunctions in planes. Critics explain gremlin sightings as hallucinations induced from stress.
Gremlins, described as tinkers and tricksters, often took the blame for inexplicable malfunctions in planes. Critics explain gremlin sightings as hallucinations induced from stress.
People with OCD often perform the same rituals repeatedly, disrupting their daily routines, for example, by washing hands over and over again. Dogs show the same kind of compulsions, such as when they chase their tails.
It’s a tricky, expensive and often very dangerous affair to safely relocate a rhino. But conservationists in South Africa have come up with a slightly awkward and highly effective way of moving the animals.
It’s a tricky, expensive and often very dangerous affair to safely relocate a rhino. But conservationists in South Africa have come up with a slightly awkward and highly effective way of moving the animals.
It’s a tricky, expensive and often very dangerous affair to safely relocate a rhino. But conservationists in South Africa have come up with a slightly awkward and highly effective way of moving the animals.
The citron's thick, lemony rind and pith (the white part) is often candied into a delicious citrus delicacy, infused with spirits or made into liqueurs.
The media often touts the Merlion as a legendary creature. However, it was imagined in 1964 by a member of the Souvenir Committee in the Singapore Tourism Board and then erected as a statue along the river in 1972.
Chihuahuas often bond to only one or two persons in a household. They can also be snobbish when it comes to other kinds of dogs, as the Chihuahua is a clannish breed.
Chihuahuas often bond to only one or two persons in a household. They can also be snobbish when it comes to other kinds of dogs, as the Chihuahua is a clannish breed.
When it comes to Italy's enormous art heritage, cash-strapped officials are often faced with an unbearable choice: Which pieces should be saved? Now, thanks to an online vote, it's up to Italian citizens to choose.