The murder of Alfred L. Barnes, an employee of Bethlehem Steel, happened on October 18, 1968, in Monroe County, Pennsylvania. Someone shot Mr. Barnes three times in the head, dumped him in a desolate pasture and stole his late-model Thunderbird.

species of beetle

If you’ve ever eaten candy from a European Union country, you might notice some unusual ingredients. For  instance, Nestlé’s chocolate “Smarties” contain

The Domino Day 2005 house sparrow, generally known as the domino sparrow (Dutch: dominomus) was a house sparrow, Passer domesticus, that was shot and killed by a hunter from the company Duke Faunabeheer in the Frisian Expo Centre in Leeuwarden, Netherlands…

An entrepreneur, advocate, and member of the Blackfoot Nation, Elouise Pepion Cobell (“Yellow Bird Woman”), fought tirelessly for government accountability and for Native Americans to have control over their own financial future.

Jeffrey Dahmer… towards the end right before he got caught, had so many bodies in his apartment that he ran out of room and stored one victim in his bathtub. He proceeded to shower over him e…

American WWII hero

These white-painted bicycles show up in cities and towns all over the world. Here's where they came from, and what they mean.

Facing incredible odds and racial obstacles in 1916, Eugene Jacques Bullard excelled and rose as the world's first black pilot

The human ear is capable of hearing very quiet (low intensity) sounds and extremely loud (high intensity) sounds. The ratio of intensities between silence and ‘ow that hurts my ears’ is…

1975 drama film based on the novel by Ken Kesey

A legally blind 78-year old man has regained his sight after being the inaugural patient to receive a promising new type of corneal implant.

Chemists at the University of Manchester have produced the tightest knot ever created. Published earlier this month in the journal Science , the team led by David Leigh used techniques in synthetic chemistry to braid strands of different molecules into a…

The bravest new face on television is a Muppet that doesn’t say much. But she speaks volumes about life on the spectrum

Farewell, Masturbating Swede

training manikin used for teaching CPR

More than 6 million people, most of them Jews, died in the Holocaust. The music they wrote as a temporary escape, however, did not, thanks in part to the efforts of an Italian composer and pianist.

British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer

A helium balloon on the moon might as well be made of lead. For any balloon to stay aloft in any atmosphere, the gas inside it must be lighter than the surrounding air.