"I do believe that rats are smarter than most people perceive them to be, and that most animals are smarter in unique ways than we think."

Archaeologists discovered the pink-tinted pearl inside the room of an ancient structure being dug out on Marawah Island, off the coast of the United Arab Emirates.

"For years, no one believed him... The police, doctors, nurses, and even his family told him he wasn't telling the truth, that he must be a closet-drinker."

Cora Pearl's extravagant personality made her popular among France's 19th-century elite. But that era's legendary debauchery soon went out of style — and so did she.

Archaeologists successfully uncovered the hidden city high in the Cambodian mountains using aerial laser scanning technology.

Researchers wonder if the heavy rewarding of habit-based solutions in Western educational systems are destroying our ability to creatively problem-solve.

"What is the evidence against the possibility of life on Mars? The astonishing fact is that there is none."

First, they saw that the orb was bigger than them. Then they saw the thousands of little creatures wriggling around inside.

This wasn't even the first time doctors had to remove "metal forceps" from a man's urethra.

"To lose a completely healthy animal would be an oddity... To lose five young, very healthy, in great shape, perfect bulls that are all basically the same age... that is so outside the bounds of normal."

It's one of 54 chapters from a transcription of The Tale of Genji, written in the 11th century.