A set of wedding rings that belong to the parents of a Pennsylvania man were returned to him after the current owners of his childhood home found them hidden in a light.  Gary Guadagno said he received a Facebook message from the owners of the Berks County home saying...

Masterpiece found hanging in French woman's kitchen headed to the Louvre Nov. 16 (UPI) -- A long-lost masterpiece dating back to 1280 is headed to the Louvre after it was found hanging in a French grandmother's kitchen. "Christ Mocked," a 10-inch-by-8-inch painting by...

Their Thanksgiving tradition is sweeter than candied yams. An Arizona teenager who was accidentally invited to Turkey Day dinner by an elderly stranger in 2016 will spend the holiday with the kind-hearted grandma for the seventh year in a row, he said this week. Wanda...

Two decades ago, a landmark study led by the psychologist Robert A. Emmons sought to understand how people benefit from gratitude, a question that scientists had rarely explored until then. Dr. Emmons’s findings — which suggested that gratitude may improve...

Can going for a jog connect you with your inner self? Can dancing be a form of reflective self-expression? Can you commune with your guiding power while lifting weights? I think you can! Reflecting is often limited to sitting quietly with little or no movement while...

An intelligence document from the Pentagon was delivered to Congress this week detailing its ongoing UFO investigations, called “unidentified anomalous phenomena” (UAP)—over 200 sightings this year. It reveals there have been more UFOs sighted, but they’re doing no...

I love writing upbeat articles about how eating more whole plants can benefit your health and help the environment. And I get excited to spread the word about healthy pleasures — things that taste good, feel good, and do good for our bodies and for our world. But then...

Professional cuddler squeezes profits from loneliness  The business is Indy Cuddles, and it's pretty much what it sounds like. For a small fee — $60 an hour — Kelly will come to your home and snuggle with you. Armed with knowledge from an illustrated book of cuddling...

Old songs now represent 70 percent of the U.S. music market. Even worse: The new-music market is actually shrinking. By Ted Gioia Old songs now represent 70 percent of the U.S. music market, according to the latest numbers from MRC Data, a music-analytics firm. Those...

As Pythagoras discovered about 2,500 years ago, music is deeply mathematical, and it’s possible to represent melody using numbers and ratios. After finishing his undergraduate degree in 2010, Ed Newton-Rex went to visit his girlfriend, who was studying at Harvard. He...