Amber Healy has been writing, both personally and professionally, since she nagged her hometown paper to give her an internship in 1996. She's a big believer that the most fascinating stories are hidden under layers of seemingly boring drivel.
World War II was an expanse of awful. Millions killed, displaced and separated from their families and...
Amber Healy
The responses to a suspenseful film clip are similar between some people with brain injuries and healthy...
Valentina Tereshkova, call name “Seagull” and the first woman in space, flew solo for 71 hours and...
Lost tourist says monkeys dropped fruit, led him to shelter during nine days in the rainforest. He’d...
Some people might shrug it off as a fad; others take the path of self-righteousness and judgment. But...
Before there were bicoastal battles over rap styles or international incidents about comma use, there...
Let’s be honest: we take science and technology for granted. Just be glad that these women didn’t...
Robot-staffed hotels are popping up in Japan where you're checked in by friendly dinosaurs. The lobby...
This may come as a shock to some, but it shouldn’t: History, and science, is not the domain of white men...
Travellers to Christmas Island, near Australia, might confront massive roadblocks and traffic congestion...
Humans are living longer than ever, but some animals can give us a real run for our money in the...
There’s a tiny little island waaaay up north, between Canada and Greenland that’s creating a big...
For every man explorer, there is a woman counterpart. These 25 women forged their own paths all around...
The Stonewall Inn uprising, predominately headed by trans and queer people of color, kickstarted what we...
Having a strange name is a sign of personality, right? If so, these towns have that base covered.
The Russians dug a nine-inch diameter hole 7.5 miles under the ground just to see what was there-until...
Can we give some credit where credit is definitely due? There’s good reason for everyone to celebrate...
Not all pets are created equal. Some animals are just plain illegal to keep in your home in the U.S., no...
In an era when food was a luxury for most Americans, dance marathons could mean the difference between a...
Can a picture say a thousand words? Absolutely? Can it bring back just as many memories? You tell us.
Part conservation effort, part labor of love, Jadav Payeng has single-handedly reforested a small inland...
Amber Healy discusses the fine line women are forced to walk between smiling out of happiness and...
It spent nearly 20 years traveling hundreds of millions of miles and studying Saturn from every angle...
An accidental fire in an underground coal mine has been burning since 1962, forcing residents to abandon...
We're trying not to be dicks about this, but there's a lot of stuff in nature that looks like a penis.
China is literally floating its solar energy fututre atop of its coal-burning past.
Cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar’s legacy as a narcoterrorist has a bizarre side note to it that involves...
The Women Airforce Service Pilots (or WASPs) of World War II were the Rosie the Riveters of the sky for...
When their owners, and their city, needed them, these dogs proved themselves incredibly heroic, helping...
