Is this the world’s oldest bread?
Archeologists in Turkey believe they have discovered the world’s oldest bread. A “spongy” palm-sized residue was found alongside an oven, as well...
Archeologists in Turkey believe they have discovered the world’s oldest bread. A “spongy” palm-sized residue was found alongside an oven, as well...
The countdown to the North American solar eclipse on April 8 is well underway. It’s pretty exciting, we think – largely because we now know what cau...
Nearly 50,000 men lost their lives at Waterloo in 1815. The battle is typically remembered as the definitive defeat of Napoleon and the beginning of a...
When you think of pasta, you think of Italy. When you think of Italy, you think of pasta. But did you know that once upon a time the Italian...
With Easter now just a week away, we’re revisiting one of our favorite Easter egg stories. Sadly, you can’t eat this kind of Easter egg and you mig...
Is a tomato a fruit or a vegetable? It’s one of the world’s great dilemmas. You’ll have heard it before, you’ll hear it again and you’ll already k...
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Nope, it's 76 parachuting beavers over Idaho. Strap in, this is the remarkable true story of when a fleet of beavers fell...
We now move around the world by train without thinking about it, with hundreds of millions of people traveling on them every single day. Today,...
I arrived late to the beauty of Scots. While I have been steeped in the vocabulary of the Oxford English Dictionary for over three decades, it is only...
The spooky season of Halloween and the long nights surrounding Christmas are now behind us, but that doesn’t mean our fascination with the spooky h...
Have you ever felt grateful to somebody, but not quite been sure how to fully express your gratitude? Well, here's one extreme option: the remarkable...
Officially known as the Khan Khentii Strictly Protected Area, this giant swathe of land is 4,740 square miles (roughly the same size as Connecticut)....