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It is not clear whether Mary A Carskadon was aware that she was hacking her way into an adolescent mystery when she analysed [...]

A courtship dance of the Bilaan, a Filippino hill tribe of the Davao del Sur region, simulates the mating behaviour of forest birds. [...]

While Indians hold the simplistic notion of democracy as anybody’s right to use ear-damaging crackers and amplifiers anywhere any time, civilised people take [...]

Skiers perform their feat on a thin layer of water. They also do a great deal of waxing. The first is because of [...]

There is this real life story about a cat and a British road-repairer and how their encounter changed the way roads appear to [...]

Student Zulakha Hussain will be surprised. “I’m fed up of answering pointless questions in maths”, she wrote in a website poem. And then: [...]

Alfred Adler, who developed the theory of “inferiority complex”, was a middle child. He could see, all along, how the non-numero-unos were geared [...]

Godzilla pops up in the Big Apple after viciously handling some ships and leaving a few imposing footprints on tropical islands. It stops [...]

Lebanese poet Kahlil Gibran once remarked that people would never understand each other unless their language is reduced to half a dozen words. [...]

Any old package of African hunters’ tall tales usually contains awesome descriptions of elephant behaviour. Some stories hinge on the notion of elephant [...]

Myths often are born out of a conflict – the conflict between our unstoppable urge to explain everything and our inability to do [...]

Was a 2003 movie right about the weight of the human soul? A rolling pun and some statistics. When you throw a die [...]