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Teams of female scientists made critical breakthroughs in astronomy and mathematics–but it was decades before they'd get credit for them.

It was the fourth discovered in the past four years.

"I dream about crayons at night," one factory manager says.

From Mazes and Monsters to Dark Dungeons, D&D was a lot scarier in the 1980s.

Almost definitely a new species.

George Wyman took 50 days to get from San Francisco to New York in 1903.

An 18th-century sculptor's proto-selfies were supposed to scare off spirits, but mostly ended up ruining his reputation.

Scientists recorded 23 days worth of material nearly seven miles below the surface.

A new study used geographic profiling to finger the man suspected of being the artist.

How two Peace Corps volunteers narrowly escaped Cyclone Winston–an option that few Fijians had.

It's not a fraternal order without some Illuminati imagery.

The severity of the drought, NASA scientists say, is further evidence of climate change.

If you suffer from vertigo, do not watch this video.

The abandoned room beneath a lake was built by extravagant Victorian criminal Whitaker Wright.

The shiny bugs emerged to mate and then perish.

The African snake doesn't seem to emit any scent at all.

The family that found them almost threw them away.

The New York accent (also found in New Jersey) is one of the most linguistically strange speech patterns in the country.