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Today is the 2009 winter solstice, the first day of winter and the shortest day of the year. Find out why and how the year’s darkest day has been celebrated for centuries.

Monday, the 2009 winter solstice, is the first day of winter. Find out why it's also the year's darkest day—and yet has been celebrated for centuries.

Archaeologists have found the only known burial shroud from a Jesus-era tomb in Jerusalem. Not only is it nothing like the Shroud of Turin, but it also held the world's earliest known leper.

Scientists are "blown away" by octopuses discovered tip-toeing with coconut-shell halves suctioned to their undersides, then reassembling the halves and disappearing inside—a rare example of animal tool use, a new study says. With video.

Today may be called Turkey Day, but the U.S. Thanksgiving Day is about more than just the bird. Learn about a holiday myth—the first "real" Thanksgiving wasn't until the 1800s—and how we celebrate Thanksgiving dinner today.

It's official: There's water on the moon—and a "significant amount" of it too, members of NASA's recent moon-crash mission, LCROSS, announced Friday.

2009 is nearly over, and if you believe in Friday the 13th superstitions, that's a good thing—this year packs the most Friday the 13ths possible. Find out why 2009 is ominously overpacked and where those superstitions came from.

With help from Michelle Obama, Sesame Street kicked off its Google-hyped 40th-anniversary season Tuesday—the first in new a two-year environmental-education effort. "Scary" issues like global warming, though, are off-limits.

With help from Michelle Obama, Sesame Street kicked off its Google-hyped 40th-anniversary season Tuesday—the first in new a two-year environmental-education effort. "Scary" issues like global warming, though, are off-limits.