The 1917 disaster was, at that point, the biggest explosion in history.

Boston’s Great Molasses Flood of 1919 sounds like fiction, but it was all too real.

For decades, a single whale has been calling out at a frequency no known species uses. Scientists still can’t find it.

Harnessing this ability could even make your life feel longer.

The cannon-like sound could be heard for hundreds of miles, but its cause long remained a mystery.

An electromechanical marvel called the Bombe decrypted thousands of WWII messages.

Foucault’s pendulum experiment led to an increase in the public’s interest in both real-life science and science fiction.

More than 100 shipwrecks from a forgotten wartime gamble lie half-submerged in a quiet Maryland bay—and almost no one knows why they're there.

In 1884, the Syria sank after hitting a reef in Fiji—and today its legacy lives on through lighthouses and reconciliation.

From 1811 to 1812, quakes in the central U.S. rang church bells in Boston and caused the Mississippi to flow backward.

• The Whydah Galley sailed into a storm off the coast of Cape Cod and was lost for over 250 years. Until Barry Clifford dove beneath the surface.

On January 3, 1961, the small Stationary Low-Power Reactor Number One (SL-1) exploded at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory—possibly because of a prank gone wrong.

4,000-year-old megalithic art in the South Caucasus holds the mysteries of an ancient culture.

Mammals aren’t known for the ocular regenerative powers, but a new study shows that nature has a few tricks up its sleeve.

“It’s the entire ecosystem from an age that’s gone.”

The burial pits were filled with the remains of at least 32 individuals.

One researcher believes that we evolved to filter out a larger truth—and it’s helping us survive.

Perhaps even indefinitely.

Turns out we’re not all watching the same version of the world unfold, just continuously updating our own personal “simulation.”

You might say it’s like striking gold, but these elements are much more valuable than that.