In a quiet corner of an ancient riverbed on Mars, a speckled rock has pushed the search for extraterrestrial life into its ...

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Eeny, meeny, miny, mo, catch a tiger by the toe – so the rhyme goes. But even children know that counting-out rhymes like this are no help at making a truly random choice. Perhaps you remember when ...

I’ve lately been feeling like I missed the memo on how to grow up gracefully — I thought I’d have more figured out by now. So, I cling to tiny moments of clarity wherever I can find them. I had many ...

There are some Philadelphia Eagles tidbits that probably aren't worthy of their own articles, but we'll round them up here. The Cowboys put a "poison pill" in the Micah Parsons trade that will keep ...

PHILADELPHIA – November turned 10 days old, and, finally, the Eagles will play their first game of the month. Here are some leftovers from the lead-up to their Week 10 matchup against the Green Bay ...

Since the very beginning, Mental Floss has been dedicated to dredging up fascinating facts from across a broad range of topics—we’ve covered everything from strange animal stories to weird historical ...

Birch leaf and peanut kernel-based source could be a cheap, accessible tool for diagnostics and imaging. Jia Wang, of the Department of Physics at Umeå. Physicists at Umeå University, Sweden, in ...

Life can feel pretty routine sometimes. Wake up, grab a coffee, get through work, make dinner, repeat. Most of the time, we barely pause long enough to notice what’s going on around us. Thankfully, ...