While the big cities have some excellent restaurants, there are actually some fantastic restaurants in small towns. We are profiling some of the very best.

Who developed the polio vaccine? Does water boil at different temperatures based on altitude? Which is the hottest of Earth’s three layers? Take our science quiz and see how you compare with Americans overall.

An Italian neurosurgeon will perform the procedure on volunteer Valery Spiridonov, who has a genetic muscle-wasting disease.

First, lightning struck a Jim Beam warehouse in Kentucky. Then, hundreds of gallons of bourbon poured into a retention pond and caught fire.

In some alternate universe, Pixar’s Wall*E was about a small robot stranded on an uninhabited Earth, voiced by Matt Damon. Someone’s mashed up the trailer for The Martian with the animated flick, and it works out pretty nicely!

The idea that our universe is just one in a 'multiverse' of parallel universes is increasingly gathering attention from cosmologists. But can we ever test the theory?

The New Horizons team has selected an object named 2014 MU69, which lies roughly 1 billion miles (1.6 billion kilometers) beyond Pluto, as the next target for up-close study by the spacecraft, NASA announced today (Aug. 28). Note: This has been prop ...

Fun facts about bacon that you may not know about. Learn more about your favorite food of all time!

The Twin Jet Nebula, also known as PN M2-9, was discovered by the German-American astronomer Rudolph Minkowski in 1947. Ordinary planetary nebulae have one star at their center, bipolar nebulae like the Twin Jet Nebula have two. The two stars at the ...

There's more than cheese just in the heads up here in Wisconsin. Looking for an egghead? Here are ten cities you might want to look at.

North Americans will get an opportunity to observe nature's greatest sky show: a total solar eclipse that will cross the entire continent.

An outstanding example of a gravitational lens. Analysts believe that at least 33 images of 11 separate background galaxies are visible.

10 Need-To-Know Things About the Regions Beyond Neptune

In the deep, something beyond belief stirs. Its bundled mass has strands poking out of it and stringy bits trailing after it. And a group of researchers decided to honor its noodle-like nature by dubbing it after an equally tendrilled hero: The flyin ...

SHEBOYGAN, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin authorities say a police dog assigned to the PGA Championship at Whistling Straits died after the air conditioner failed in his partner's squad car. The K-9 named Wix was a 3-year-old male Belgian Malinois (MAL&# ...

CBs Rollins, Gunter start strong, as does Packers' pass rush, while WR Janis scores another TD 

Instead of having a mid-life crisis, I'm having a MID-LIFE CELEBRATION. I have totally arrived. I feel empowered by 40. I mean, what do those 30 year olds really know? Not much, I can tell you having been one for the past 10 years. But, that was ...

Leisurely Fish is just one of a large shortlist of names that the International Astronomical Union (IAU) has selected for 32 exoplanets in 20 planetary systems. The preapproved names, which range from the sensible to the downright bizarre, can now be ...

A short-lived dramatic outburst from 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko was captured by the OSIRIS camera aboard ESA’s Rosetta orbiter on July 29, 2015.

A Wisconsin judge says two girls accused of stabbing a classmate to please the horror character Slender Man will stay in adult court, where they could face decades in prison.