Articles by Sabrina Imbler

Thérèse Humbert played French bankers like fiddles to live in the lap of luxury.

Sarah Rachel Russell sold exotic makeup that turned out to be mostly arsenic.

Just $200 can get you a resin-encased chunk of horse racing history.

Barbara Erni stole from countless inns thanks to a chest with a secret hidden within.

Octavio Aburto and other Mexican ecologists want to preserve the pristine reefs of the Isla Marías penal colony.

The newly described species has a five-unit compound eye and an unbristled butt.

It's way cooler than an aurora.

All praise to the tireless continuous plankton recorder.

It has the legs of a sea scorpion, the body of a lobster, and the eyes of an enormous larva.

These light blue rings can be seen from space.

Spoiler alert: Try the Arctic or Sicily instead.

Corey Gray and Sharon Yellowfly want to bring gravitational wave astronomy to speakers of the language.

The rabbit was pampered and definitely not butchered.

The canine remains were buried in a tomb in Orkney, Scotland, over 4,000 years ago.

For decades, "pathological tourists" ended up in asylums or worse.

Victorian leech jars were beautiful—if somewhat ineffective—vessels for keeping the worms alive and out of sight.

Sculptures, weapons, and human skulls will soon go back to the South Pacific.

A deep-sea expedition uncovers a candy-colored oasis off the Gulf of California.

Nobuko Yoshiya’s stories of frustrated, forbidden love helped establish a genre read by millions.

Space agencies are looking for 12 female participants for a microgravity study that’s every couch potato’s dream.

Archaeologists in Switzerland unearthed a fragment of a very small shoe.

Though not much to see, Mount Stromboli is a scientist’s dream.

It takes a lot to go from the bayou to the deep sea.

For centuries, miniature ivory women helped real women seek medical help.