Despite an amazing public relations campaign, Christopher Columbus was definitely not the first to...
Robot-staffed hotels are popping up in Japan where you're checked in by friendly dinosaurs. The lobby...
Ellis Island, the busiest immigrant inspection gateway in the U.S. for over 60 years, opened the doors...
The U.S. Army has left a ticking time bomb in Greenland—but it doesn’t take the form that you might...
Popular This Week
INSH Originals
Awesome
The responses to a suspenseful film clip are similar between some people with brain injuries and healthy patients. That finding has researchers...
Prisons are not designed to be pleasant places. They are harsh, cruel, unforgiving. They can be deadly. But within purposely constrictive physical...
Lost tourist says monkeys dropped fruit, led him to shelter during nine days in the rainforest. He’d vanished without a trace from a camp just before...
Let’s be honest: we take science and technology for granted. Just be glad that these women didn’t, because they changed our world forever with their...
As far as holiday airport mayhem goes, chances are the 92 occupants (86 passengers and 6 crew) of the propeller-powered LANSA Flight 508 flying...
WTF
The pioneers that we now know as the Pilgrims were anxious, given many tales of vicious tribes, about...
The shattering of Hillary’s glass ceiling would have been quite the pioneering achievement for...
How do you know that you're not living in a computer simulation?
Nature can be the source of amazing beauty, but it can also be incredibly terrifying.
Today I Learned
There're not many tasks these days that folks in the western world would do for a paltry three dollars...
The greatest pirate story ever told isn't the Pirates of the Caribbean movies; it has already...
Antarctica has mystified adventurers, wreaked havoc upon sailors, and been the subject of many...
What If
More hugs, affection, and caring for others.
Could you live without salt for a week?
NASA wants to send astronauts back to the Moon by 2024. What if we stayed and settled on the Moon this time?
Would we cooperate or fight?
More INSH
