Apartheid in West Papua. Civilians are led away like slaves after being detained following a peaceful meeting. October 2011 WARNING – the following article contains…

very large factory explosion in China in 1626 killing thousands of people

The famous Vinicunca Rainbow Mountain located in the Ausangate region sits about 100 km southeast of Cusco and is home to a large llama and alpaca herding community. This centuries-old community is among one of the few remaining pastoralist societies in the…

Works by Newton now seen as non-scientific

Discover the rich and eventful history of the barcode scanner. How it came about, who invented the barcode scanner, its rise to fame & its future!

Coordinates: 7°54′N 77°28′W / 7.90°N 77.46°W / 7.90; -77.46

Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) was one of the leading artists of the High Renaissance. Fifteen artworks are generally attributed either in whole or in large part to him. However, it is believed that he made many more, only for them to be lost over the years…

It’s an old pilot’s tale: the idea that airplanes are sometimes infested with tiny mischief makers

German world war II submarine

Describing it that way can be damaging to patients, families and caregivers

Nineteen years after Cambridge researchers created the world's first webcam they look back on how it made a coffee pot into an internet icon.

The Kagnew Battalions (Amharic: ቃኘው) were a number of military units from the Imperial Ethiopian Army which fought as part of United Nations Command in the Korean War (1950–53). The battalions rotated yearly, with the First Kagnew Battalion arriving at the…

American psychologist B.F. Skinner is best known for developing the theory of behaviorism, and for his utopian novel Walden Two (1948).

To mark the anniversary, Wyoming is delivering an impressive lineup of events, from a reenactment of the first vote to female-focused exhibits and retreats

During WWII, Benghabrit saved a hundred Jews, by granting them certificates of Muslim identity, allowing them to avoid arrest and deportation by the Nazis

Coffee was discovered in the 9th century in Ethiopia. From there it spread across the globe, making its way through Europe and at some point into Sweden. It was not as welcome there as in other parts of the world, especially not for King Gustav III. With…

Approved by Dr. Robert Cook - Veggie straws are mostly processed vegetable powder. They’ve got all the bad and none of the good; they’re probably worse for you than potato chips.

A man in Texas helps police find missing people. He’s spent three decades working on the hardest, coldest case of all: his daughter’s murder. Has he finally solved it?

American actor

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The mysterious makeup of the solar system's innermost planet may be due to a massive "hit and run" collision billions of years ago, a new study reports.