The point isn’t to relieve pain—it’s to kill
The hook-and-loop tape's moment in the sun came after others were free to copy it
Victorians were obsessed with vividly-colored wallpaper, which is on-trend for this year–though arsenic poisoning is never in style
The “super outbreak” flattened towns and killed and injured thousands, all with little warning and in the space of 24 hours
“Walking into the houses, many of them were like people had just simply stood up, walked out and never come back”
The creatures were supposedly collected for the sake of research
Fossilized footprints, which had been left in a lakebed by ancient mammals and birds, have been swiped
Harry K. Tye's body went missing after the 1943 Battle of Tarawa. Decades later, his remains were discovered and returned home.
San Francisco-area miners used sourdough starters as a replacement for commercial leavening agents
Ladies and gentlemen, start your molecules
The cephalopod was chowing down on a jellyfish—long thought unimportant in the food web
The school is displacing millions of specimens in favor of a new track
The patent for this supremely convenient invention didn't last long
Despite "the most brilliant examination" Harvard had ever seen, the school didn't grant degrees to women at the time
New report sounds the alarm on the RMS Queen Mary
Things are getting serious for the world's most famous bald eagles
It's not always in museums—and historic name recognition is starting to matter less
Her work has long been obscured by her dramatic personal life
The brain implant bypasses the patient's injured spinal cord, allowing him to eat and drink on his own
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