Fresh off its buzzkilling revelation earlier this week that you might get cancer from bacon and burgers, the World Health Organization is back with a fun bit of news: you probably have the herpes virus, too.
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A howler monkey weighs little more than a pug but can roar as loud as a tiger. Researchers at Cambridge University have found a surprising trade-off across howler species: the louder a male’s roar, the smaller his reproductive organs. His testicles, to be specific.
This week, Jimmy Kimmel’s talk show is broadcasting from Brooklyn instead of its usual Hollywood set. In a bit that aired Monday night, the ABC late-night talk show’s correspondents interviewed kids in New York and Los Angeles on their impressions of the other city.
Part of the nature of tattoos is that they are living art—the kind that you can’t bequeath after your death. That may be about to change, thanks to new processes that claim to preserve inked skin indefinitely.
Another day, another mass shooting in America, and another round of endless news coverage speculating on the killers’ background, motives, and methods.
Less than six months after its first units shipped to Iraq and Ethiopia, a Swedish company producing modular, flat-packed refugee shelters is struggling to keep up with demand. And many of those orders are now coming from Europe.
Starting today (Oct. 1), it’s illegal in England and Wales to smoke in a car carrying someone under the age of 18.
Pope Francis had a private meeting with Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis during his US visit last week.
It’s been a rough week for Uber in Europe.
Surgeons in London have implanted derivatives of embryonic stem cells into the retina of a patient with macular degeneration in an attempt to restore her sight and reverse the damage of a disease that affects an estimated 10% of people over the age of 65.
In an effort to boost diversity and social mobility, recruiters for accounting and consulting firm Deloitte will not see the names of job applicants’ schools and universities next year in the UK.
Set aside the ad-blocking debate for a moment. The biggest development in advertising right now may not about whether you watch the ads, but whether the ads are watching you.
A new report quantifies what enlightened employers have long known: gender parity in the workforce has enormous value.
Following previous campaigns against the Eurovision Song Contest, Lady Gaga, and Game of Thrones, anti-gay lawmakers in Russia are targeting a new cultural threat: same-sex emoji couples.
More than 300,000 refugees and migrants have made the perilous crossing to Europe by land and sea so far this year. A journey by air would be far safer, and cheaper than the exorbitant reported sums demanded by smugglers to organize crossings. Yet for a variety of reasons, actually getting on a plane has proved impossibly difficult for most fleeing conflict.
The Romanov family hasn’t rested easy since Russia’s last tsar, his wife, and their five children were gunned down in 1918 amid the chaos of the Bolshevik revolution.
One of the world’s longest-running conflicts made a historic step toward peace this week. As Cuba’s president Raul Castro watched, Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos shook hands in Havana with Farc rebel leader Rodrigo Londono, better known by his nom de guerre, Timochenko. “The time for peace has arrived,” Santos said.
Researchers compiling a thesaurus of all words used in Scotland in recorded history have found a preponderance of terms for one of the country’s favorite conversation topics: bad weather. There have been more than 400 words for snow alone in Scotland, according to the Historical Thesaurus of Scots, a project from the University of Glasgow.
If you can drink a beer and eat a hot dog while you do it, a wise man—my father—once said, it’s not a sport, it’s a game.
For 7,900 yen, or about $65, it is now possible in Japan to hire an attractive man to come to your workplace and gently brush away your tears as you weep. If you need help getting the waterworks flowing, he will also patiently sit in your cubicle and watch sad videos with you until you cry.
British scientists have asked the country’s fertility regulator for permission to change the DNA of human embryos as part of their research on miscarriage.
If you have assembled a piece of Ikea furniture with a partner, then you have probably argued with a partner about assembling a piece of Ikea furniture. Domestic battles over the Swedish retailer’s products are such a common feature of modern cohabitation that comedian Amy Poehler once joked that Ikea was Swedish for “argument.”
Parents who refuse to vaccinate their children in Australia may soon lose up to 15,000 Australian dollars ($11,000) per child per year in tax and child care benefits under a popular proposed law.
