Adults under 60 should aim for 8,000 to 10,000 steps per day to lower the risk of death. Adults over 60 should aim for 6,000 to 8,000 steps per day for a lower risk of mortality. Taking at least 2,300 ...

Billy Strings is opening up about the unexpected death of his mother, Debra Apostal, which happened in June. Strings — whose legal name is William Lee Apostal — says his mom wasn't sick leading up to ...

The mammals' mysterious clicks contain a stunning level of complexity, a new study shows. A group of sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) swims together in the Indian Ocean. For years, researchers ...

AS READERS OF “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” will know, humans are only the third-cleverest species on Earth. The first two places go to mice and dolphins. But perhaps Douglas Adams’s comic ...

In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the University of Cambridge. The lecture was called "Is the end in sight for theoretical physics?" Forty-five years later, ...

Delinda Rood crossed an item off her bucket list when she taped an episode of "Wheel of Fortune" in April. The show will air on Tuesday, Nov. 4. Brainerd native Delinda Rood tapes an episode of “Wheel ...

The Count of Monte Cristo is getting another adaptation, this time with Sam Claflin and Jeremy Irons. As previously announced, the new series will premiere on PBS through PBS Masterpiece following its ...

This study investigated the differences in the consonant context on the four corner vowels (/i/, /u/, /æ/, and /ɑ/) between native and Chinese speakers using the AESOP-ILAS 1 corpus dataset.

The Greek language is undeniably quite rich. Through Greek, everyone can express many meanings with the same word. For instance, “Philippos” in ancient Greek means the friend of a horse, while the ...

Mercifully, this one fillets it down to a paltry eight episodes to accommodate the contemporary attention span, and, with the aid of lots of plush locations but not a great deal of dramatic subtlety, ...