You don’t need to visit the Grand Canyon to add whimsy to your life.

From 1876 to 1878, a strong El Niño wreaked havoc on the tropics. 

In 1934, a luxury cruise liner burned off the New Jersey coast. Ninety years later, no one can say for certain what—or who—started the fire.

Some experts think the cryptozoological legend is tied to an enigmatic owl. For others, the search is still on. 

Newly revealed documents show that, while breaking Nazi codes, Turing was also building a device that almost changed military communication forever.

This isn’t the fabled realm of Atlantis—but it’s almost as magical.

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.