The American research ship was attacked by Israeli forces from both the sky and sea. But why the disaster occurred in the first place remains to be understood.

"To those who oppose the death penalty - in my particular case, anything short of death would be cruel and unusual punishment."

When Neil deGrasse Tyson was a jock, Betty White was a babe, and Robin Williams was exactly the man we'd all come to know and love.

From sideshow performers to record-holders, Ronnie and Donnie Galyon have defied the odds to become the longest-living conjoined twins ever.

"He removed a cable from his bedside table lamp. Then he wound it around his nipples..."

After his father agreed to testify against the Mafia, Giuseppe Di Matteo was tortured by gangsters for two years before being murdered.

Scientists spent two years ruling out all other possible explanations.

"The age of the downloadable gun begins."

The cooperation involved in feasting rituals helped shape human civilization as we know it.

"If liquid water and a significant atmosphere were present on the early Moon for long periods of time, we think the lunar surface would have been at least transiently habitable."

"We knew fairly quickly that what we were seeing was something very special. And huge."