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A document from ancient India is full of zeroes, making it the earliest known mathematical record of that number's use.

The actor tweeted: "I am the face of Russian boner problems. #blessed."

Peacock spiders are known for their funny courtship dances, and now scientists have seen two more.

The Category 1 storm was expected to make landfall sometime Thursday afternoon.

The Irish woman said that they thought the slimy black hair-like substance that landed on the kitchen sink was not an eel, but a piece of fishing wire.

Authorities are investigating a police officer who claimed he would shoot a black man after a video of the incident surfaced.

A new study compared the speeds of movement of elephants during daytime and nighttime, as well as mortality data, over 10 years in northern Kenya.

A 20-foot-long crocodile was a dominant predator in Texas 95 million years ago, when there was a sea in the middle of the United States.

"Fatberg" brings a whole new meaning to the London Underground.

Astrophysicists have devised a new method to study these distant and mysterious objects that does not require any new instruments or data, but instead exploits the discrepancies in existing observations.

The incident took place last week off Peach Cove, near the entrance to Whangarei Harbour in New Zealand.

A father and mother plummeted into a volcanic crater after they attempted to rescue their son who fell in.

"We had a serious threat of a complete breakdown of law and order in the British Virgin Islands," said U.K. officials.

Odd history: The ancient Greeks might have seen holiness in earthquakes and built their cities right on top of them, putting them in a great place to be destroyed.

Schoolyard bullies launched a vicious assault on a teenager on school premises.

Irrespective of where you get your tattoo, nanoparticles from the ink could travel to the lymph nodes in the body, which are an important part of the overall immune system.

A dead Viking left behind his sword while lost on a mountain in Norway, and the iron survived for more than 1,000 years to be discovered by a reindeer hunter.

A large number of observations and data combined with computational modelling and a advanced technology called SAMI are finally giving astronomers a sure way to plot out the 3D shapes of galaxies, 90 years after we started looking for a solution.

Following the incident, Major’s urine was tested for possible toxicity and samples of cocaine and morphine were found in it, equal to ‘eight times the drug drive limit’ of a human.

This is the eighth time that the United Nations has imposed sanctions on North Korea since it conducted the first nuclear test in 2006.

A new study suggests light drinking during pregnancy may not be harmful to the unborn baby. There is “surprisingly limited” evidence that drinking small amounts of alcohol during pregnancy poses a threat to the baby, according to the researchers.

How did human ancestors move around the treetops? This early primate was a jumper, according to a fossil of its ankle bone.

A fossil that traces the burrows of a prehistoric worm has shown scientists something about how we evolved into complex animals.

We might nervously scratch ourselves when we are stressed out and anxious because it tells other people not to attack us. It works for rhesus monkeys, after all.

Jose was downgraded to a Category 1 storm while Katia became a tropical storm after hitting Mexico.

North Korea doesn't like the U.S. considering sanctions against it.

According to the Air Canada authorities, they had received confirmations that “the charter flight would be authorized” to fly back with the Canadian tourists stranded on the island.

The German chancellor leads her challenger Martin Schulz of the Social Democrats by 16 points, and most voters feel that she has already won, and election analyses have mostly focused on the kind of coalition that would shape the government after the election.

North Korea's birthday was tamer than expected.