From drowning to murders to the mental toll of isolation, these stoic towers carry a full share of tragedy.

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What happens when paranoia becomes reality? Hemingway’s friends and loved ones believed he was insane when he told them the FBI was following him, but the truth turned out to be far worse than anyone could’ve expected. Analysis of declassified documents tells…

For 197 years, the Fugate family has remained sealed off from the outside world as they've passed their blue skin through the generations.

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The unprecedented surge in shares and home values during an economic crisis is easing the retirement path for those who have savings and investments.

No food is more associated with Ireland than the spud—which didn't appear there before the late 1600s. So what did people eat till then?

Workers are hitting the picket lines, fed up that employers’ pandemic-era boom times aren’t improving their lives.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope observations of Jupiter's icy moon Europa have revealed the presence of persistent water vapor—but, mysteriously, only in one hemisphere.

He was, according to mathematician Mark Kac “in his taxonomy of the two types of geniuses,” a “magician” and “a champion of scientific knowledge so effective and so beloved that he has generated an entire canon of personal mythology,” writes Maria Popova…

Researchers peering into Earth’s interior found two continent-sized structures that upend our picture of the mantle. What could their existence mean for us back on Earth’s surface?

Tens of thousands of wooden stakes poking up from British Columbia's shoreline have smashed a long-held stereotype of Canada's First Nation people.

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