How a few largely forgotten men may have saved the world.

The illustrator said his cartoons of the Rube Goldberg Machine were a “symbol of man’s capacity for exerting maximum effort to accomplish minimal results.”

Teachers said he didn’t draw enough heads and experts note that he copied traditional paintings rather than create his own work.

Yes, in the early 1930s, New Zealand was plagued by an actual surge in exploding pants.

Columbus and his contemporaries all knew the Earth was round long before he ever set sail.

From bowel movements to rigor mortis, here's what's in store for your body after the sweet release of death.

On Jan. 21, 1968, a plane with carrying nuclear bombs came crashing down to the frozen sea ice of western Greenland. A huge B-52G Stratofortress made an emergency landing near Thule Air Base in this icy area of the world as part of a protective measure in case the United...

Even before Pearl Harbor, America faced threats from its enemies abroad during the lead-up to World War II.

This is what it looked like when American soldiers liberated Dachau concentration camp, freeing tens of thousands of prisoners in April 1945.

Anatomist Gunther von Hagens invented the process of plastination with the idea being to preserve human tissue in ways never thought possible.

With Beethoven-like precision, even while blind, Tom Wiggins was able to master a piece of music after hearing it just once.