When packaging designer Fredric J. Baur died in 2008, part of his cremated remains went into a Pringles can. This sounds like a joke written by…
Researchers argue that the undeciphered Voynich Manuscript may have been bound in the wrong sequence. Here's what the new analysis proves—and what it doesn't.
COINTELPRO was not a conspiracy theory: it was a documented FBI program. The harder question is how a security operation crossed into political disruption.
Orson Welles sent Martians into American living rooms on October 30, 1938. But did his broadcast really cause nationwide panic? The evidence tells a more complicated…
The 'demon core' wasn't cursed. Its documented history is more chilling: two fatal radiation accidents involving the same plutonium sphere at Los Alamos.
Before candy and carved pumpkins, Halloween was intertwined with harvest rituals, disguises and stories of spirits. How much of the ancient fear survives today?
Italian archaeologists recovered a Bronze Age sword from submerged remains at Lake Mezzano. The archaeological find has been confirmed; its original purpose remains under investigation.
After a villager reported a hieroglyph-covered block, archaeologists uncovered remains of two colossal royal statues in Egypt’s Nile Delta.
Newly reported research at Shég’ Xdaltth’í’ reveals an unusually rich Ice Age camp. Possible shelter remains and wolf-like animals invite questions—not premature certainty.
An illustrated manuscript, unknown writing and centuries of competing theories: what Yale's records actually establish about the Voynich puzzle.
