Today, one can simply turn to the internet to find scary movies to stream or creepy costumes to wear. But our modern versions of spooky and kooky fail to elicit the same feelings of unease that the scares of decades or centuries ago do.…

It's hard to imagine that we're almost living in the year 2020. Though we've seen plenty of impressive technological advances, like artificial intelligence and phones that unlock by scanning our faces, it's not quite the world of flying…

People who grew up in the '70s often say the same thing: "Thank goodness we didn't have social media back then. We got to make our mistakes in private and not have them preserved forever on the internet." And for good reason, because those…

In this digital age, it's all too easy to overlook what it's like not just to read words, but to hold them in your hand in newsprint. As these iconic front page covers show, the pen - and paper - is mightier than the sword. There is a lot…

Nature is all around us. It's the sky above our heads, it's the foliage that changes with the seasons, and it's the wildlife we share it all with. Photographers all over the world are capturing moments in nature that make us rethink how we…

Dangerously unfit for human habitation, a number of settlements around the world remain strictly off-limits, ranging from once-thriving cities contaminated with radiation to desolate villages riddled with asbestos, anthrax and explosives.…

It might seem as though every time you turn on the news, there’s more talk of pollution, deforestation, global warming and other dangerous occurrences with potentially catastrophic results. Even with all of the technological advances made…

The 1970s were a time of significant political change and serious partying, so you can be forgiven if you don't completely remember these pop-culture happenings of the decade. Nearly 50 years later, some of these stories may even be news…

The early 1900s were a time of dramatic changes in America. The western frontier had closed. The telephone and electricity were transforming homes. Cars were putting people on the road and the invention of the airplane would soon put them…

The Amazon Rainforest is teeming with life - and helps sustain ours by producing thousands of the fruits we eat and use to make other foods. It's home to a huge number of animals, plants, insects, and even indigenous groups that have yet…