Norbert Schemm’s dying wish was quite simple: He just wanted one last beer with his sons. In a picture that has gone viral on Twitter, the 87-year-old from Appleton, Wisconsin, is seen smiling with a bottle of Bud Light in one hand. By Schemm’s bedside are his wife, Joanne, and their children, Bob, Tom and John.

Ruja Ignatova called herself the Cryptoqueen. She told people she had invented a cryptocurrency to rival Bitcoin, and persuaded them to invest billions. Then, two years ago, she disappeared. Jamie Bartlett spent months investigating how she did it for the Missing Cryptoqueen podcast, and trying to figure out where she's hiding.

She may have had a difficult past, but Mexico City resident Adhara Pérez has a bright future. At just eight years old, she already has an IQ of 162— higher than both Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking, who each had an IQ of about 160.

As Concetta Antico took her pupils to the park for an art lesson, she would often question them about the many shades she saw flashing before her eyes. “I’d say, ‘Look at the light on the water – can you see the pink shimmering across that rock? Can you see the red on the edge of that leaf there?’” The students would all nod in agreement. It was only years later that she realised they were just too polite to tell the truth: the colours she saw so vividly were invisible to them.

He was beloved by Neil Gaiman and Robert Jordan, and so good that he won a World Fantasy Award for a Christmas card. How did John M. Ford disappear?

So far, no cure has been found for Parkinson's. It is only possible to treat the symptoms. But a nurse in Scotland can smell the disease before it is diagnosed, and researchers are hoping she can help on the search for a breakthrough.

Most kids are busy with other things at the age of nine, but not Laurent Simons from the Netherlands. He is the world's youngest university graduate and is about to receive a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records for it.

The man was agitated, with red-rimmed eyes and clammy skin. “Help me,” he said. “I’m under a curse.” At first it was just flickering lights, he said. And then a figure, at the edge of his vision. Now something grabbed his fingers or stroked his arm. There was more – and it was happening more frequently.

This is the second post from a series of three articles in which religious views of well-known scientists will be listed. The other two posts, you may guess, will celebrate believers and agnostics in the field of physics. You ready for this?

“They are, by nature, storytellers. … Writing is magic, so to have people who can do the tricks talk it about makes for good conversation.”

A new feature-length documentary will focus on the life and legacy of the late Anthony Bourdain. The as-yet-unnamed project will be directed by Oscar-winning filmmaker Morgan Neville, reports The Hollywood Reporter,

Apple CEO Tim Cook in an interview published Thursday discussed his decision to publicly come out as gay in a 2014 editorial, saying he "has not regretted it for one minute, not at all."

Napoleon Chagnon, a cultural anthropologist whose studies of the indigenous Yanomami people of the Amazon rain forest made them famous but whose methods provoked intense disputes among other anthropologists, died on Sept. 21 in Traverse City, Mich. He was 81.

Greta Thunberg is angry, and not just about climate change. "The haters are as active as ever", the 16-year-old Swedish climate activist posted on social media on Thursday, "going after me, my looks, my clothes, my behaviour and my differences". Anything, she says, rather than talk about the climate crisis. It hasn't stopped her from campaigning. On Friday, she led another of her climate strikes, heading up a huge demonstration in Montreal, demanding international aviation does more to cut its carbon footprint.

SeekHealing, a program for addicts in North Carolina, is also tackling the loneliness epidemic.

Martin Weitzman, an inventive economist who argued that governments would see climate change as a more urgent matter to address if they took more seriously the small but real risks of the most catastrophic of outcomes, died on Aug. 27 in Newton, Mass. He was 77.

Six years after surviving a bone marrow transplant, 7-year-old Gabriel Smith had a choice. He could either go to Disney World for the first time or meet the stranger who saved his life.

In this episode, April Glaser is joined by guest host Siva Vaidhyanathan, director of the Center for Media and Citizenship at the University of Virginia and author of several books about social media and the internet, including a recent one on Facebook, Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy.

It was a parent's worst nightmare. In 1997, newborn Stewart Rembert was abducted from the hospital by a woman impersonating a nurse. The police and FBI were called in and a massive search began. But the story had a happy ending. Rembert was found 19 hours later in a box next to a restaurant dumpster in Tacoma, Wash., by a rookie FBI agent in his first few months on the job.

A man-about-town philanthropist, he and his brother Charles ran a business colossus while furthering a libertarian agenda that reshaped American politics.