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When black-and-white images can be hard to relate to, adding color evokes empathy.

Thanks to citizen scientists, this aurora is anthropomorphic.

Since Thomas Jefferson first tried, growing European vines had always failed.

The first-ever recording of the phenomenon sounds a little like a typewriter.

We asked which places gave you "fernweh," and you gave us poetry!

These prehistoric reptiles reigned over the skies 66 million years ago.

In Oostduinkerke, Belgium, horses plow the ocean instead of the fields.

Beautifully surreal images.

Topaz operated like any other 1940s U.S. high school, except its teenagers were prisoners of the federal government.

A winding path through the woods is lined with more than 60 scenes from fables, folk tales, and children's films.

In an 1878 letter, he uses the term to refer to a technological glitch.

Sometimes the food was all blue.

From a V-2 rocket to arsenic wallpaper.

"Waterloo teeth" represent a more ghoulish time in the history of dentistry.

The message was "Hi."

In the 1940s, luthier Samuel Stochek created stunning instruments from the wood of demolished houses.

Another winter has passed without a safe route.

Thirty-four years after it was thought extinct, the hispid hare is alive and kicking.