Heather Whipps

An Adam's apple — that chunk of bony cartilage that's wrapped around the larynx — is more common than you think.

On 07/07/07, couples ran to wedding chapels, and 08/08/08 was considered especially auspicious by the Chinese. Then Sept. 9, 2009 was heralded for its mathematical symmetry.

Throw Fido in a lake and he'll take to it like, well, a duck to water, but Fluffy the cat will balk at the prospect, right?

Man-made diamonds can be whipped up in a laboratory in no time at all, yet they look and act remarkably similar to the real thing.

Today, it is the Supreme Court that ultimately holds interpretive power over the famed document, but it hasn't always been that way.

Children with allergy-prone parents are more likely to develop allergies themselves, though not necessarily to the same things.

When bees sting they release a chemical called melittin into their victim.

Good Friday is a solemn day as far as the Christian faith is concerned.

The first canned beer was sold Jan. 24, 1935. Beer in cans now outsell bottled beer.

Inventions from a century ago laid the groundwork for innovations that changed our lives.

Scientists ponder why almost all of the ancient temples on Sicily faced the east.

There are actual historical reasons that we carve pumpkins every Oct. 31.

Everyone from brides and grooms to movie studio execs are celebrating the upcoming calendrical anomaly in their own way.

Scientists still can't figure out why humans got lighter.

It was simply homegrown ingenuity that turned America into a world leader.

Recent breakthroughs in bionics and artificially lab-grown body parts already help people live bearable and more productive lives.

Others have had a tougher path then the Latina Supreme Court nominee

Hudson was never heard from again after a mutiny by his crew during a later voyage through northern Canada.

The head of GM won't be executed, like he could have been in some parts of ancient Rome.

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Sophisticated pirates who hijack trade ships cause billions of dollars in losses every year.

Stepping in as President Obama's new Secretary of the Treasury this past January was a bit like taking over as captain of the sinking Titanic.

She may have ruled like a man, but Egyptian queen Hatshepsut still preferred to smell like a lady.