Wolves are helping Yellowstone’s aspen trees grow tall again after decades of overgrazing.

Radioactive wasp nests have been identified at the Savannah River Site, a nuclear facility on a 310-square-mile property in South Carolina close to the Georgia border. Workers found the first ...

There’s technically only one correct way to say ‘biopic.’ But the wrong pronunciation has a pretty compelling rationale behind it.

Take care when you visit these beaches—factors like surf conditions, shark attacks, and weather can make them treacherous.

When food is especially scarce, it’s even possible that one blacktip binge meal could sustain a hammerhead for two months, providing it supplemented with daily feedings of tiny (0.5 pound) fish.

Do you think you know the gang names from back in the day? Their monikers might sound funny, but they definitely weren’t to be messed with.

If a plane ticket and hotel stay are out of your budget, a paperback book (or a loaner from the library) can help transport you to far-flung, sun soaked climes.

The study found that the state with the highest average life expectancy at birth in the U.S. is Hawaii, which comes out far above the national average with a score of 79.9 years. Massachusetts came ...

As it turns out, 911 misdials are often the result of so-called “butt dials” (inadvertent calls owing to a phone being ...

Daytime talk shows reached a pinnacle during the late 1990s —though the label is a bit of a misnomer. The stations that paid licensing fees to transit these shows could broadcast them whenever they ...

Mental Floss talks to Jennings about his new Kennections book, the wrong ‘Jeopardy!’ answer that haunts him, and what he’s ...

Montana comes in second, with 37 percent of its trails deemed exhausting or dangerous. One standout: Apgar/Huckleberry Lookout Trail in Glacier National Park, which attracts grizzly bears.