The greatest pirate story ever told isn't the Pirates of the Caribbean movies; it has already...
70 years have passed since the Second World War and the Nazi invasion of North America. Wait. What?
Could we extinguish the sun when it becomes red giant in about 5.4 billion years from now?
The shattering of Hillary’s glass ceiling would have been quite the pioneering achievement for...
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Awesome
If it floated, it was needed. Half a million New Yorkers were rescued by a Coast Guard-led fleet of tugboats and yachts. When disaster strikes...
The responses to a suspenseful film clip are similar between some people with brain injuries and healthy patients. That finding has researchers...
Valentina Tereshkova, call name “Seagull” and the first woman in space, flew solo for 71 hours and circled Earth 48 times in her only trip into orbit...
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...
WTF
World War II was an expanse of awful. Millions killed, displaced and separated from their families and...
The pioneers that we now know as the Pilgrims were anxious, given many tales of vicious tribes, about...
How do you know that you're not living in a computer simulation?
Did you know camels used to hang out in the Arctic?
Today I Learned
An American company has invented an industry-changing, fashion-friendly leather product that will...
Rosie the Riveter was a symbol for the feminist movement for decades, but behind the poster was a real...
There're not many tasks these days that folks in the western world would do for a paltry three dollars...
What If
Elon Musk wants to nuke Mars. What would happen?
Under what conditions would you consider uploading your brain?
Should we be going to Venus instead of Mars?
What would happen if you tried to surf a tsunami wave?
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