Ice presents a small everyday mystery. A cold pavement can be dangerously slippery even when the air temperature is far below freezing, while many other crystalline solids are perfectly easy to walk on. A steel skate can glide across a rink...
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Astronomy has a reputation for expensive telescopes, complicated star charts and distant objects visible only through professional instruments. Yet some of the sky's most memorable events re...
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No doors. No locks. No fear. In Shani Shingnapur, India, people sleep peacefully with their homes wide open. Why? They believe a divine force protects them. This real village defies crime...
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In the remote town of Longyearbyen, Norway, it's famously illegal to die due to permafrost preserving bodies. But did you know there's a U.S. town with a similar law? Welcome to Barrow, Ala...
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What is the oldest city in America? The oldest city in America depends on the definition of "city". If a city is considered as an urbanized area inhabited by a stable population.
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What is urbex? Urbex, or Urban Exploration, is an activity that involves exploring abandoned or inaccessible places to the public, such as industrial buildings, schools, hospitals, prisons,...
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Which is the first superhero that was invented - Superman was the first superhero to be introduced in a long-running comic series and established many of the traits that would become common...
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