A foreigner's simple question about Australian culture has exposed the everyday habits, social codes and rules that outsiders find baffling.

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Secret Santa gift exchanges can be chaotic in the best way. One minute you’re drawing a name from a hat, the next you’re scrambling to figure out what they’d actually like. The trick is finding ...

A strange little magic puzzle that looks completely impossible. The sword links and unlinks in a way that shouldn’t be possible—yet the secret is hiding in plain sight. A fun visual mystery that will ...

If you've spent any time in a dictatorship — I've had that happy experience — you understand why your high school teachers were always praising democracy. You quickly learn that authoritarian states ...

Working with South African daisies, Colombian magnolias and Philippine coffee trees, botanists the world over are discovering the secrets to bringing extremely rare and threatened plants back from the ...

Astronomers from the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy (IfA) have uncovered the turbulent past of a distant red giant by listening to its celestial “song.” Subtle variations in the star’s ...

The creator of the Kryptos panels, Jim Sanborn, sought to unburden himself of the puzzle, and then discovered before an auction he had archived its solution in the Smithsonian. By John Schwartz John ...

A price has been set for one of the biggest secrets kept by the United States’ top spy agency: $962,500. That was the price reached at a Thursday auction of the solution to the last bit of the ...