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Whether it's bacteria, a city name, or a day of the week, love can be found in unexpected places—including our vocabulary.

Like clockwork, flu viruses seem to strike more people in winter than in any other season—and there are several reasons for that.

Received a text about unpaid tolls? You may be the target of a new phishing scam.

Archaeologists used to think that the Clovis people were the first inhabitants of the Americas some 13,500 years ago. The evidence from these ancient sites says otherwise.

A new tablet uses haptic feedback to put live plays into the hands of sports fans with no or low vision.

‘Leonardo: The Musical: A Portrait of Love’ didn’t exactly soar on stage. But don’t blame the bird poop that helped get it there.

The sinking of the RMS 'Titanic' shook the world—and forced better safety regulations to be put into place.

In this rare clip from 1970, three Titanic survivors tell their stories from that fateful night in April 1912.

In honor of the 25th anniversary of James Cameron’s ‘Titanic,’ WHOI has released never-before-seen footage of the real-life shipwreck.

The most famous maritime disaster of all time is commemorated with plaques and memorials around the world.

Take a look at some of the more enduring misconceptions surrounding history's most famous vessel.

There are few tales of the ‘Titanic’ left unexplored. Joseph Laroche’s story is one of them.

Millvina Dean, the youngest passenger aboard the 'Titanic' on its maiden voyage, was only 9 weeks old when the ocean liner hit an iceberg and sank in 1912.

The oil tycoon tried to use a monkey named Titan to help find the sunken ship.

Everything from a cursed mummy to a steering mistake have been floated as the real causes of the ‘Titanic’ disaster—and some conspiracy theories claim the ship never sank at all.

J. Bruce Ismay’s life was changed in an instant. At 1:40 a.m. on April 15, 1912, sporting pajamas under a suit and topcoat, with slippers on his feet, the chair

Richard Norris Williams dreamed of being a tennis great. The ‘Titanic’ nearly cost him his legs.

Songs about ‘Titanic’ go way beyond Celine Dion’s smash hit “My Heart Will Go On.”

In her later years, Eva Hart had the distinction of being the last living 'Titanic' survivor with first-hand memories of the disaster.

It’s a scene of visceral horror that probably sounds familiar to nearly every contemporary reader: On an April night, a majestic ocean liner plows through the N