Gather the family—and keep them off their screens—for a fun adventure. Many of these scavenger hunt ideas can be done for free!

Early childhood eating habits are crucial for lifelong metabolic health, with doctors warning that the first decade lays the foundation for conditions like diabetes. A balanced diet, regular ...

Alabama has an abundance of Christmas tree farms, but the landscape has changed a lot over the past decade. While some longtime tree farms have closed, several new farms have sprouted up from one end ...

Repairs will be carried out around a large pyramid cairn erected by Queen Victoria on the Balmoral estate in Aberdeenshire. Prince Albert's Pyramid was commissioned by Queen Victoria in memory of her ...

A new museum has opened in Egypt, with around 100,000 artefacts on show. It covers around 7,000 years of the country's history from pre-dynastic times to the Greek and Roman eras. The Grand Egyptian ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Friday is Special Shape Day and Kids Day at the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta – and that is only the tip of the festivities for the seventh day. Kids can grab a goodie ...

A study suggests that the first of seven key pyramids in Egypt, the Step Pyramid of Djoser, was built using a hydraulic lift. Dated to about 4,500 years ago, this would move up the introduction of ...

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The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 360 BC, Plato envisioned the cosmos as an arrangement of five geometric shapes: flat-sided solids called polyhedra. These immediately ...