Beneath the piles of presents and a herd of magic reindeer lies the story upon which Christmas was built, the virgin birth of Jesus. Though this is the miracle birth that’s gained the most lasting attention in our culture, it’s not unique, as LiveScience’s Megan Gannon shows with this list of six other supernatural beginnings …

Perhaps there’s no great time talk about the end of days, but maybe those warm fuzzies left over from the holidays will take the chill off this intriguing story from LiveScience’s Tia Ghose. One of Hollywood’s favorite themes is an apocalypse of one kind or another, and audiences can’t seem to get enough of a …

Syria is square in the sights of the world right now, thanks to the recent chemical attacks that have the U.S. wondering if it should step back into another Middle East conflict. Though there are any number of opinions on the subject, one thing we can all agree on is that the history of this …

As if “Kick a Ginger” Day wasn’t bad enough, the one to two percent of the population bearing red tresses appear to run some other health risks you may not have heard about. Rachael Rettner at LiveScience takes a closer look at the issues redheads face more often than their blonde or brunette brethren, none …

We humans often think we have the ingenuity to solve all of life’s little inconveniences by using that big brain Mother Nature bestowed on us, but when we’re in a bind, we’ve started to return to nature in the tech sense to get the job done. LiveScience’s Tanya Lewis presented seven fascinating examples of how …

One of the things many parents envied in Harry Potter was the clock Mrs. Weasley used to keep track of her large brood, but without the help of wizard magic, what’s a worried Muggle parent to do? Turns out, technology is quickly catching up allowing us to keep an eye on our kids as never …