There was something about Dungeons & Dragons that spoke to Mario Alvarenga in a deep way. He tried it for the first time five years ago — never mind that he was not a teen, as most newbies are, but an adult. While experiencing the role-playing ga ...

You can probably remember the joy when you were allowed to get the glitter out at school. There's a sense of fun and nostalgia about the sparkly stuff that reminds us of being young when we paint our faces with it at festivals and concerts. But ...

Nirvana were my first true musical obsession. The self-titled greatest hits collection released when I was 12, and at that age, primed for teenage angst in a wave of hormonal shifts, their music spoke to me on a level that I had never experienced bef ...

A man targeted by marketing companies is making money from cold calls with his own higher-rate phone number. In November 2011 Lee Beaumont paid £10 plus VAT to set up his personal 0871 line - so to call him now costs 10p, from which he receives 7p. T ...

On March 28, 2019, the Bitcoin (BTC) blockchain recorded a total of 393,698 confirmed transactions as both its hash rate and coin price climbed steadily over the past month. Confirmed transactions are now at the highest value since the beginning of J ...

Apartments smaller than 375 square feet are now temporarily banned in Santa Monica under an emergency ordinance adopted Tuesday night by the City Council. The ban will only be in effect until May 10, giving city leaders 45 days to mull a permanent me ...

Do you want to make money, but never leave your bed? NASA just may have your dream job. According to CBS-affiliate WKMG, researchers and NASA and the European Space Agency are willing to pay 24 participants nearly $19,000 to spend 60 days in bed and ...

A New Jersey man would have missed out on a $273 million lottery jackpot if it wasn't for a good Samaritan store clerk who kept his tickets safe after he accidentally left them on the store counter. Mike Weirsky, 54, scored the life-changing Meg ...

Airbnb has long felt like an existential threat to hotel companies. New data shows that it actually is one. US consumers spent more money on Airbnb last year than they did on Hilton and its subsidiary brands like DoubleTree and Embassy Suites, accord ...

A judge blocked oil and gas drilling across almost 500 square miles in Wyoming and said the U.S. government must consider climate change impacts more broadly as it leases huge swaths of public land for energy exploration. The order marks the latest i ...

We may not have to wait much longer to get our first glimpse of E.T., NASA chief Jim Bridenstine said. NASA has made the search for alien life a high priority, and recent discoveries give ample reason for optimism that the endeavor will be successful ...

People who experiment with microdosing claim that it can help a person to think more creatively, feel less anxious, and sharpen focus. But despite plenty of anecdotal evidence and Silicon Valley’s ample claims that these positive effects are real, sc ...

We as a species would be miserable without yeast. Baker's yeast has given us leavened bread for thousands of years. And I don’t even want to begin to imagine a world without beer and wine, which rely on yeast to convert sugar into alcohol.

Today, young people are more likely to suffer from depression and self-harm than they were 10 years ago, even as substance abuse and anti-social behavior continue to fall, a new study says. Depression levels rose to nearly 15 percent among people bor ...

It's been 15 years since Justin Timberlake exposed Janet Jackson's breast during the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show, but Adam Levine's strip show at this year's game is renewing conversation about the original nipplegate and the di ...

With how much new hardware Samsung unveiled at Unpacked, it’s easy to get lost in all the announcements. There’s the Samsung Galaxy Fold, Galaxy Buds, Galaxy Watch Active, Galaxy Fit, Galaxy S10, Galaxy S10e, Galaxy S10+, and 5G Galaxy S10+. We tried ...

Oninaki was one of the new titles announced during last week's Nintendo Direct, and has been the beneficiary of some significant coverage in this week's issue of Japanese magazine Famitsu. Published by Square Enix and developed by Tokyo RPG ...

Who’s afraid of the Green New Deal? I’m not. It’s ambitious, aspirational, improbable, impractical — almost as audacious as putting a man on the moon. We used to be able to think big. Let’s do it again. Since the 14-page resolution was introduced in ...

A South Carolina student may have saved his father’s life after his teacher spotted him biking on the road, searching for help. Cameron, a young student at Ellen Woodside Elementary in Greenville County, was able to get his diabetic dad the help he d ...

A recent study published in the Journal of Personality & Social Psychology looked at the potential distress caused by decision-making. What they found was making decisions only seems to be distressing when you’re overly concerned with making the ...