Category: Feature

South Africa’s unique culture — and complex history — shines through in everything the ‘rainbow nation’ does. Even the country’s foodways reflect the diverse demographics of people that call the southernmost point of Africa home.

The quality of a man’s semen is directly related to his ability to help conceive a child. But science hasn’t found many solutions for men looking for a baby-making boost.

Harry Belafonte, one of the nation’s most prominent African American performers and social activists, is suing the children of the nation’s pre-eminent civil rights leader, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

The United States may have dodged an economic catastrophe by raising the debt ceiling and opening the government, but it didn’t emerge from the political debacle unscathed.

General Motors announced plans Wednesday to produce a new Chevy Impala sedan powered by both gasoline and natural gas.

Up to 30,000 people in Britain may be silent carriers of the human form of mad cow disease, according to new research published Tuesday.

What are you thinking about? You wouldn’t always want the answer to that question available to others, but science may be heading in that direction.

If you’re having trouble getting pregnant or have suffered a miscarriage, some common household products may be partly to blame, new research suggests.

A flesh-eating drug that turns people into zombie-like creatures seems to have made its way to the United States.

Anyone who’s ever eaten an Oreo knows how difficult it can be to eat just one. Scientists have long suspected that our brains crave junk food in the same way they crave other pleasurable substances, such as illegal drugs.