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A famous explorer’s doomed ship is finally found 107 years after it was lost to the Antarctic deep.

A new study finds surprising evidence of the self-domestication of urban foxes.

When you’re a genius, how do you make ends meet?

Diplomacy is war by other means.

This could change how researchers approach vaccine development.

Japan just opened to tourists for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began, echoing the island country’s isolationist policies during the feudal era.

Thomas Baldwin’s Airopaidia (1786) includes the earliest sketches of the earth from a balloon.

Recasting the iconic Carrington Event as just one of many superstorms in Earth’s past, scientists reveal the potential for even more massive eruptions from the sun.

An interactive “globe of notability” shows the curious correspondences and the strange landscape of global fame.

Andrew Wakefield turned away from science and to the tabloids to spread his fabricated data.

Many first-hand accounts from the golden age of piracy were grossly embellished, meaning it’s extremely difficult to separate Blackbeard the legend from Edward Thatch the person.

From the Notre Dame to Buddhist statues, dozens of irreplaceable artifacts are destroyed every year by both man and nature.

The Swedish Academy honored the writer for his uncompromising inquiry into the lasting consequences of Africa’s colonization.

Christmas was banned in 1647 and rebellions broke out across the country.

The most important events in history have nothing to do with politics or wars.

We live in a world dominated by science, but most people don’t understand its most essential characteristic: establishing standards of evidence to keep us from getting fooled by our own biases and opinions.

The thrills and horrors of strange heavenly bodies condensed into one attractive snapshot.

Remarkable ‘fan art’ commemorates 50th anniversary of legendary guitar player’s passing.

Two Williams pioneered geological mapping in Britain and the United States – but the world only remembers one.

Two different studies provide further evidence of the efficacy of psychedelics in treating depression.

Some purveyors of “wellness” sure are sounding like right-wing conspiracy theorists.

Can passenger airships make a triumphantly ‘green’ comeback?

A man’s skeleton, found facedown with his hands bound, was unearthed near an ancient ceremonial circle during a high speed rail excavation project.

Waun Maun was an ancient Welsh stone circle that had an awful lot in common with Stonehenge.

This map of Europe’s 20 most populous islands holds a few surprises and unlocks a truckload of trivia.

Researchers at University College London link waist circumference with dementia.

The Moon, Venus, and Jupiter are the brightest night sky objects. On Thursday evening, November 28, they’ll all align, plus Saturn, too. As the planets orbit the Sun throughout the year, […]

New forensic evidence and three other theories on London’s most notorious serial killer

The week-long global protest, which is calling for an end to the age of fossil fuels, is taking place in more than 160 countries today.

Viral ‘photo’ is composite image, but other map shows true and growing size of devastation