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'Gravity' and Reality: History's Worst Space Disasters
Here are the biggest real-life disasters in spacefaring history, as well as a few near-misses
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I disappeared for 30 years
Shelagh McDonald: 'I missed my old life, but it seemed forever out of reach'
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Did Humans Arrive in Americas 30,000 Years Ago?
Cave art depicting early Americans’ sex lives suggests people inhabited Americas 18,000 years earlier than believed.
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How Columbus Sailed Into U.S. History, Thanks To Italians
Christopher Columbus became the face of a celebration of Italian heritage, amid discrimination.
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Liberals, stop whining and do something
Liberals need to stop complaining about the right. In recent weeks, the chorus of criticism emanating from liberals has been intensifying, focusing on how right-wing Republicans have shut down the government and are threatening the global economy.
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Railway in Chicago in 1967
A railway encircles thirty-five blocks of shops, offices, and hotels in Chicago, Illinois.
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Huge Machines Hurl Artificial Storms Deep Inside This NASA Hangar
The colossal wind tunnels at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, have been used for decades not only to test the aerodynamism of planes, but also to subject submarines to simulations of turbulence and drag in aquatic environments.
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Children playing with worthless money during the German hyperinflation
A well-known photo shows children playing with worthless Germany money. At inflation's peak, 1 dollar traded at 4.2 trillion Deutsche Marks.
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Blood-filled mosquito is a fossil first
Insect’s bloated abdomen carries traces of blood molecules that are 46-million-years old.
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The End of Hitler's Family Line
The Pact Between the Sons of Hitler's Nephew Never to Have Children.
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Social Media: Did It Really Start With Facebook?
Today, Facebook dominates social media. The world’s largest social network boasts over 1 billion users, an impressive fraction of the 2.5 billion people who have Internet access worldwide. Google+ has also breached the 1 billion mark, but in terms of logins per day is quite far behind the champion.
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Everything you know about Steve Jobs and design is wrong, according to one man who should know
Hartmut Esslinger was already a big name in the field of industrial design in 1982, when his firm, Frog Design, bid on a secret project to help Apple become the company that would transform computers from “business machines” into consumer goods.
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Toyota Shows Hydrogen Prototype in Race Toward Fuel Cells
To demonstrate how far hydrogen cars have come since the early 2000s, Toyota gave test drives of a small, prototype sedan in Japan this week. A similar vehicle with a different exterior will debut at next month’s Tokyo Motor Show. The car, which showed quick acceleration and sharp handling, will arrive in the U.S., Japan and Europe as early as next year as a 2015 model.
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Bill Gate's Notes: America's Greatest Inventor
Bill Gates recently wrote the foreword for Edison and the Rise of Innovation, a new book about one of the great inventors ever. Read the foreword and view photos of some of the Edison-related items he owns.
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5 Surprising Facts About Otzi the Iceman
A report that Ötzi the Iceman has 19 genetic relatives living in Austria is the latest in a string of surprising discoveries surrounding the famed ice mummy. Ötzi's 5,300-year-old corpse turned up on the mountain border between Austria and Italy in 1991. Here is a rundown of the latest on the world's oldest Alpine celebrity, and some of the other remarkable things we've learned about Ötzi.
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The amazing history of the Nobel Prize, told in maps and charts
The United States added three more Nobel laureates to its roster on Monday, all in economics, bringing the national total to an astounding 347 in the prize's history. That's the most of any country in the world, by far: next-highest ranked is Britain with 120 laureates.
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Ex dishes on sex life with Steve Jobs
Chrisann Brennan first met Steve Jobs in 1972, while they were both students at Homestead HS in Cupertino, Calif. Over the next five years, they dated off and on throughout their teens and early 20s. The two were living together with their friend Daniel Kottke, a computer engineer and one of the earliest employees of Apple, in 1977, when the company took off.
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Woman and her baby during World War II
She's testing a stroller that can withstand possible gas attacks, England in 1938.
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20 Poets We Wouldn't Kick Out of Bed
Is there anything hotter than a poet who's also easy on the eyes? In honor of Kill Your Darlings, a movie about the affair between poets Allen Ginsberg and Lucien Carr (which also features obsession, murder and lots of hot poets being hot), we've rounded up 20 poets who can rhyme our couplet any day of the week.
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A brief history of young adult literature
Monday marked the start of 2013's Teen Read Week, but with young adult literature regularly burning up the bestseller lists, it's clear many young adults don't need an excuse to seek out the written word: Sixteen- to 29-year-olds are the largest group checking out books from their local libraries, according to a Pew survey.
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