Thumbing his nose at authority and whipping crowds into a frenzy, he changed music forever.

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How a musical truck hijacked an elite dessert and delivered it to the people.
These mostly earth-dwelling organisms can stimulate rain in the atmosphere—and a lot more.
We're at the beginning of full-fledged gene-editing revolution that has enabled scientists to fashion novel plants and animals with thrilling—and sometimes troubling—ease.
How Valerie Vomit, Julius Sneezer, and the rest of the gang enraged parents, offended everyone, and made more money off of boogers than Kleenex.
The story behind how an adorable orphan and a rusty old appliance conspired to traumatize a nation.
How some disturbing real-life news reports about child welfare forced Big Bird to reveal his "imaginary" friend to the residents of Sesame Street—and the world.
The brain imprints itself on the inside of the skull. These impressions have been key to the study of the evolution of the human brain.
A hemispherectomy is a rare surgical procedure in which half the brain is removed. Most people with half a brain live pretty normal lives.
Meg Murry—the time-hopping heroine at the center of Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle In Time'—transported sci-fi into a new dimension.
The Statue of Liberty arrived in New York on June 17, 1885.
(And why so many people have never heard of it.)
Peter Rowe’s path carves a 372-mile loop through a landscape that looks extraterrestrial: the South Australian outback.
A bizarre medieval manuscript written in a language no one can read has baffled the world’s best cryptologists, stumped the most powerful code-breaking computers, and been written off as a masterful hoax. Can the hive mind finally unlock the secrets of th
Without ever setting sail, Marie Tharp mapped the ocean floor and made a discovery that shook the foundations of geology. So why did the giants of her field dismiss her findings as “girl talk"?