On August 12, 2000, the Russian submarine Kursk was taking part in a major naval exercise in the Barents Sea when disaster struck. Two explosions tore through the...
Joshua Holt traveled to Venezuela in 2016 because he believed he was starting a new life with the woman he loved. Instead, the 24 year old American would be arrested...
Every year, hundreds of millions of people willingly climb into machines designed to make them scream. They are lifted to terrifying heights, dropped at incredible...
The year is 2006, and police in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, receive an unusual report from the local zoo. Visitors and staff have apparently noticed the unmistakable...
A volcano erupts and everything nearby disappears under rock, lava, and ash. So here’s the obvious question that occurs to almost everyone at some point. Why not...
Right now, jumping into a simulated world takes a headset and a few minutes. Augmented reality goes the other way, dropping digital objects into the room you’re...
The Solar System looks stable. Planets in their lanes, everything running on schedule, the same arrangement holding for billions of years. Now picture looking up one...
Although death is a biological process, the last moments of life may include experiences which are much more mysterious than the physical changes taking place in the...
For decades Rikers Island has been the subject of controversy because of overcrowding, violence, frequent staff shortages, abuse, medical neglect and deaths, all of...
Minus 71.2 degrees Celsius. That’s the record low in a village where roughly 500 people live year round. At that temperature, skin exposed to the air freezes...
Divers off the coast of Lanzarote come across something that stops them mid descent. Human figures standing on the seafloor, dozens of them, silent in the blue while...
Black Dolphin is the unofficial name for Penal Colony No. 6, or IK 6, in Sol Iletsk, Orenburg Oblast. Its roots go back to the 18th century, when an ostrog, or stockade...
