The author of Frankenstein had an obsession with the cemetery and saw love and death as connected.
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Mary Toft staged an elaborate hoax, but the pain was real.
Humanity is never fully in control of its creations. This lesson from Mary Shelley has remained relevant for over 200 years.
The Antarctic Treaty of 1959 prohibited nations from making new land claims on the continent. But it never mentioned claims from private individuals.
Psychologist Mary C. Murphy explains why growth-mindset teams outperform those centered around a lone genius.
Seneca thought the use of ice was a "true fever of the most malignant kind."
From "The Castle of Otranto" to "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, these books changed the literary landscape.
This necropsy represents an early entry in what would become a tradition of performing autopsies to consider an individual’s sanctity.
Urban legends help personify the anxieties that arise from living in a modern city.
What creates our private, inner universes is still a mystery.
Dennis Klatt developed trailblazing text-to-speech systems before losing his own voice to cancer.
When you're a genius, how do you make ends meet?
From "Thompson's violinist" to the "Experience Machine," these thought experiments will throw your mind for a loop.
Billy was a local celebrity in the early 1900s. And he might have been a murderer.
Serving as the inspiration for the modern horror classic “The Blair Witch Project,” what does our fascination with this unsolvable mystery tell us about our modern psyche?
Fear of technology is not new. But we misunderstand its origin. In reality, we don't fear technology but each other.
"The Da Vinci Code" popularized the idea that Christians stole much of their theology. It's wrong, especially regarding Christmas.
Some scientists think we should allow our bodies to more harmlessly live with pathogens until they’re cleared from our systems.
A 1.5-million-year-old hominin bone shows signs that the victim was eaten by lions — and humans.
"Oosouji" or "big cleaning" is much more than a chance to tidy up.
"Burke's the butcher, Hare's the thief, and Knox the man who buys the beef." Read the story of 19th-century Scotland's corpse dealers.
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Fear is one of the oldest and most powerful emotions known to man, so it should come as no surprise that horror stories are as old as storytelling itself.
Its apples taste bad, but institutions all over the world want a descendant or clone of the tree, anyway.
From forgotten Hollywood movies to Frank Herbert’s "Dune," science fiction illustrates some of our deepest fears about technology.
The amazing life of “Gudrid the Far-Traveled” was unjustly overshadowed by her in-laws, Erik the Red and Leif Erikson.
Jules Verne wrote about gasoline-powered vehicles, weapons of mass destruction, and global warming more than a century ago.
With U.S. infrastructure crumbling, an honor oath and iron ring remind engineers of their profession's ethical weight.
Synthetic biology has the power to cure and kill. Have we learned from our past mistakes?