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At the Long Beach drugstore counter where she liked to linger, a jobless young woman named Elizabeth Short acquired the playful nickname that would fuel her long, macabre afterlife. She dyed her ...

Scientists say they have observed one of the highest-altitude acts of bird predation ever recorded. By Jason Bittel In January 2023, scientists attached tracking devices to eight grey plovers on ...

Who invented Bitcoin? That question has become a captivating mystery for the digital age along the lines of whatever happened to D.B. Cooper or who was Deep Throat in the Watergate scandal.

A massive and mysterious 'door' recently spotted in the icy wilderness of Antarctica via Google Maps has sparked a flurry of wild theories. The peculiar anomaly was noticed in Queen Maud Land ...

Now, suddenly, with the apparent emergence of Irvine’s boot historians, authors, and climbers who’ve dedicated a considerable part of their lives to unraveling the mystery are trying to ...