Elizabeth Rayne

An innovative process used only salt and water to turn rotting wood into fabric that was woven into a dress for a museum exhibition.

Whoever built it for the protection of a deified pharaoh must have taken advanced physics into account.

Our genes make us who we are—but are they products of chance, natural selection, or something else?

Purple doesn't actually exist in the visible light spectrum because it's a nonspectral color created when your brain compensates for the conflicting signals from red and blue wavelengths hitting your eyes simultaneously.

You might say it's like striking gold, but these elements are much more valuable than that.

Here's what you'll learn when you read this story: The Whydah Galley was an 18 -century slave ship transformed into a pirate raider by

The cannon-like sound could be heard for hundreds of miles, but its cause long remained a mystery.

Boston's Great Molasses Flood of 1919 sounds like fiction, but it was all too real.

Here's what you'll learn when you read this story: The merchant vessel Joyita took off for what was supposed to be a 48-hour voyage from Samoa to the Tokelau Islands, but she never reached her destination.

In 1955, the Joyita was found listing, but still afloat—with nobody on board.