Beaked whales are famously private—even their mass grave was hiding.

Martin Couney, an American obstetrician, saved more than 6,000 babies. 

America's most futuristic luxury train hurtled into a Nevada canyon after someone pried the spikes out of a rail and shifted it four inches inward.

The stela where the date was carved depicts a ruler and a Jaguar god deity, showing how Maya kings used the Long Count calendar for power. 

For years, researchers assumed a 7,000-year-old mass grave pointed to a massacre, but the truth is far stranger.

Because the seal had never been broken, the Etruscan tomb’s grave goods had also gone completely untouched by looters.

The sting recovered 30 bronze coins minted during the Second Punic War, but the real story is the tens of thousands that are still unaccounted for.

In 1995, a runaway train triggered a deadly chain of events at the Val Reefs mine in South Africa.

Revolutionary devices, age rewinding, and cell regeneration: scientists are finding multiple promising approaches for curing blindness, and even for stopping vision loss before it starts.

New treatments aim to restart dormant follicles—not just slow hair loss.

What was thought to be men’s work until then went unnoticed when carried out by women.

New research says time only exists where space is curved enough to support it, implying that our expanding universe is slowly losing its grip on time itself.

When a nuclear accident happens, it’s vital that scientists have accurate fallout models. 

Novel research is challenging long-held beliefs about how the mind works.

In 1991, a tip from a fisherman led a dive team to a shadowy wreck 230 feet deep in the Atlantic—it took six years to figure out what it was.

Dated to the ninth century C.E., a time when the Vikings ruled the area, the grave held the remains of at least 10 different young men.

We might need to reconsider our position in the consciousness hierarchy.

The North Sea platform was the world's largest oil producer—but a routine shift change led to catastrophe.

Ötzi the Iceman was discovered in 1991, and is a treasure trove of information about the Copper Age.