From a Yosemite icon to a Grand Canyon hidden gem, there are epic waterfall hikes to be found across the country.

While some people may define literacy in strict terms as proficiency in reading comprehension, there’s often much more to it than that. To be literate opens the door to parse information, think and ...

The San Diego-Carlsbad area in California trails behind, with the CPI change reaching .80 percent in the last two months and 4 percent over the last year. Many typical expenses, such as state taxes, ...

Historical figures are just like us: Sometimes, they go to the beach. Whether it’s to kick back and relax, to shoot a movie, or to stay far away from a regime that exiled them—well, that depends on ...

In Tune Twist, we run the lyrics of a hit song through multiple languages, then translate them back into English. Here’s a hint: This song, which came out in 1999, was the first single from a ...

The Eugenics Record Office thought pseudoscience could make more perfect humans. It led to unspeakable tragedy.

If eating fresh fruit makes your mouth tingle, you might have this little-known (but very treatable) condition.

Wearing your favorite old pair of camouflage shorts on a Caribbean cruise could put a real damper on your vacation.

Recently, Mental Floss broke down the state names that Americans find the hardest to pronounce, based on a study by language ...

In a galaxy far, far, far away, astronomers have found the oldest black hole in the universe. It sits at the center of the ...

Americans have a strong preference for what they want to eat before they shuffle off this mortal coil.

A science fiction writer called it an “artifact of such utter simplicity and perfection that it seems it must be either the ...