There’s a lake in Antarctica that no human has ever touched. Not because it’s remote, though it is, but because it sits under nearly four kilometers of solid...
Bang Kwang Prison was no ordinary prison within Thailand’s system of prisons; for many years it gained a bad reputation due to conditions which drove the prisoners...
Black Dolphin Prison is known for holding some of Russia’s most dangerous criminals, including men convicted of multiple murders and sentenced to spend the rest of their...
Five billion years from now, the Sun will be running out. Assuming anyone is still here to care, that becomes an urgent problem, because a star running low on fuel is a...
Wake up in London, teleport to your office in Tokyo, meet friends for lunch in Mexico City, catch an opera in Rome that evening. It sounds like a film. What makes it...
Around 780,000 years ago, north became south and south became north. Earth’s magnetic poles flipped, and the planet carried on without much drama, largely because...
Miami-Dade County Jail is one of the largest jail systems in the United States, with an average of 4,000 inmates spread across its three main detention facilities. For...
Lava lamps may look harmless, with colorful blobs slowly floating through brightly colored liquid. At the height of their popularity, around 7 million were reportedly...
It’s brain vs. brawns in the ultimate dinosaur showdown. In one corner, we have the giganotosaurus and in the other, the troodon. Although they lived in two...
World War II changed the course of human history, shaping the borders, governments and technologies that define the modern world. But what if the outcome had been...
Do you get a little nervous before a flight? If you do, you’re not alone. Between 33% and 40% of people feel some form of anxiety when they board a plane. While a giant...
Wild cats kill dozens of people worldwide every year, which probably doesn’t shock you. Here’s the part that might. House cats, the ones sleeping on your...
