The deadliest natural disaster in U.S. history, the Great Galveston Hurricane claimed as many as 12,000 lives. 

Though the real culprit behind the deadly Quintinshill train collision may not be so easy to determine.

Under scrutiny, the purportedly 2,500-year-old body raised a lot of eyebrows and even more questions.

Red tide algal blooms produce a powerful neurotoxin. Scientists may have finally found an antidote. 

Zoraptera, an order of insects that includes angel insects, has defied accurate taxonomic description since 1913. 

The 1906 Courrières disaster killed 1,099 miners. But deep in the labyrinth, a handful of men found ways to stay alive that no one thought possible.

The midwestern U.S. is the epicenter of tornadoes on Earth, but the spring of 1896 showed the world just how powerful these cyclones can be. 

It started as a go-for-broke experiment, but it wound up saving an ecosystem.

Legends of treasure buried near a riverbank turned out to be more than just myth.

Studies have challenged conventional wisdom and even revealed an unexpected psychological effect.

Well, maybe not ‘doom.’ But a new study argues that air conditioning should be a last-ditch solution.

Two discoveries reveal a hidden Byzantine settlement and sealed tombs containing gold amulets.

The Mont Blanc tunnel fire in March 1999 exposed significant engineering problems. 

From Alaska to South America, the first humans to arrive consistently hunted megafauna to extinction.

It’s been a good ride. 

For nearly half a century, 22,000 gold artifacts have played a deadly serious game of hide-and-seek with history.

And it’s not because they don’t exist.

Does your consciousness “operate independently” when your brain is close to death?

This ancient treatment could be key to keeping your luscious locks.

Researchers are using NASA satellites to crack the mystery of “milky seas.”