Before the Fukushima disaster of 2011, the Tokaimura nuclear accident was the worst in Japan’s history. On Sept. 30, 1999, a combination of safety shortcuts, human error, and lack of oversight led to ...

Archaeologists expect to find relics from the past, but not relics left behind by other researchers just like them. A team of student volunteers recently came across a particularly unusual artifact ...

An Irish farmer recently uncovered an ancient slab of butter by “pure luck” on his Donegal farm. The nearly 50-pound slab of “bog butter” is currently undated, but historians believe it could date ...

In 1924, 14-year-old Bobby Franks passionately argued against the death penalty at a school debate. “Punishment should be reformative, never vindictive,” the boy declared. His older brother, Jack, ...

Researchers in Leipzig, Germany, recently uncovered a previously unknown piece of music composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart himself. The manuscript dates back to 1780 and consists of seven miniature ...

Women like Mae Capone and Victoria DiGiorgio Gotti stood behind their gangster husbands for better or for worse.

Pantelleria is a dot on the map, a tiny island located about midway between Sicily and Tunisia. But 2,000 years ago, it was likely the site of danger and drama, as a hoard of recently discovered Roman ...

Archaeologists in the ancient city of Assos in modern-day Türkiye have uncovered a 1,700-year-old Roman ringstone with a depiction of Athena, the goddess who was believed to have protected the city.

Though the RMS Carpathia was some 58 miles away when it received the Titanic's distress call, the steamer navigated treacherous waters at top speed to reach the sinking ship — and managed to rescue ...

The concept of “blue zones,” or areas where people supposedly live longer and healthier lives, gained widespread attention after journalist Dan Buettner coined the term in the early 2000s and wrote ...

One of the most iconic images from World War II came not from the battlefield but from Adolf Hitler’s bathtub. In it, an American photographer named Lee Miller is seen casually soaking in Hitler’s tub ...

Small populations of Stone Age humans might have driven dwarf hippopotamuses and elephants to extinction on the island of Cyprus, according to a new study. Like other Mediterranean islands, Cyprus was ...