Austrian mathematician

Nims Purja climbed the 14 mountains above 8,000 meters—Everest, K2, and a dozen more—in just six months and six days. In the process, he reached new frontiers of human possibility.

A film by sculptor Joanna Malinowska, showing virtually at the Hirshhorn Museum through Nov. 30, investigates the unusual, unexpected and sometimes bizarre ways in which people interpret their histories and construct identities.

Botox is commonly injected to mitigate wrinkles, migraines and muscle spasms, but it may have an ability to treat depression, a new study finds.

area of predominantly coniferous woodland just south of Farnham, Surrey, England

When salvage crews raised the battleship West Virginia six months after the Pearl Harbor attacks, they found the bodies of three sailors huddled in an airtight storeroom — and a calendar on which 16 days had been crossed off in...

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The Emirate of Crete (Arabic: إقريطش, romanized: Iqrīṭish or إقريطية, Iqrīṭiya; Greek: Κρήτη, romanized: Krētē) was an Islamic state that existed on the Mediterranean island of Crete from the late 820s to the reconquest of the island by the Byzantine Empire…

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nine companies of the US 77th Division during WWI

The career of Rodney Anoa’i (known to wrestling fans as "Yokozuna") seemed to slide downhill after his release from the WWF. His weight at the time of his death was 580 pounds. While it appears he may have lost some weight, tragically, it was not enough to…

In research 65% of our respondents said that friends or relatives had disappeared after their diagnosis. This is called 'cancer ghosting'.

Just because the enemy creates a World War I-style defense doesn't mean you have to attack them that way.

Between approximately 1996 and 1998, two men in Southport, Merseyside, England ran a scam to trick people into surrendering socks. They became known individually as the Southport Sockmen.

This article details the list of Little League World Series winners by division. There are currently four World Series tournaments played each summer.

The security guard in that story also remembers the strange event from his perspective, he remembers chasing the shoplifter and seeing him literally disappear into thin air.

American physician

instrument that aids in the observation of remote objects