Rudy Eugene, the Causeway Cannibal who ate the face off a homeless man he attacked along the MacArthur Causeway, was apparently not high on bath salts or any other exotic street drug at the time of the attack, according to a report released Wednesday by…

There is a curious thing called the Diderot Effect, which may explain why we can buy loads of stuff and still feel a bit, well....sad.

Africa's Congo River claims many noscripts, including being home to the highest number of unique species in the world.

Eadweard Muybridge was not into smut and eroticism. His photographs of two naked women kissing served to aid his studies of human and animal movement.

As one of the first female wartime correspondents, Martha Gellhorn witnessed and covered many pivotal moments of World War II and the rest of the twentieth century.

Did you know that pressure on your spine varies greatly among the most common postures we all assume daily? Sitting upright for example exerts up to 40% more pressure on the lumbar spine compared to

This is a story about the history and future of an evil town.

The bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) is a bird of prey found in North America. A sea eagle, it has two known subspecies and forms a species pair with the white-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla), which occupies the same niche as the bald eagle in the…

mountain south of Nazareth in Israel

In my second blog post of the summer, I discussed the copper arsenic green pigments that I suspected had been used to color at least a few of the garments in the MdHS collection.  Since then I've done a lot more research and finally tested those garments…

Large pest-exclusion fence in Australia

Investigates the life and the mystery surrounding Titanic's First Officer, William McMaster Murdoch with regularly updated research.

She is the Manic Street Preachers fan who lived the ultimate dream. More than a decade ago American movie maker Elizabeth Marcus began travelling…

Leif Eriksson Day commemorates the Norse explorer believed to have led the first European expedition to North America.

Did you know that diamonds are not made from coal? Read on to learn about how diamonds are formed.

Caliph of the Almohads from 1199 to 1213