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.

How a chemical-weapons testing technique helped crack a chilling hospital murder case.

He uncovered 30,000 coins ancient coins in remarkable condition. They had to have come from somewhere.

Cutting-edge genetics research reveals a startling legacy embedded in our DNA.

You might say it’s just a pigment of your imagination

Our genes make us who we are—but are they products of chance, natural selection, or something else?

Archaeologists have dated the site in northwestern Bavaria to 2,300 years ago.

A rogue millionaire built the subway in 1870 to fight the government.

Trace evidence can solve murders—but the specialists who study it are disappearing.