Pulling fresh potatoes from the dirt while picking ripe cherry tomatoes from the exact same plant sounds like a science fiction movie plot. However, agricultural science has made this a verifiable reality.

Out of nearly one thousand Nobel laureates since 1901, exactly two individuals have voluntarily declined the most famous award on Earth.

On the evening of October 11, 1973, forty-five-year-old Charles Hickson and his seventeen-year-old relative Calvin Parker were fishing off a pier on the west bank of the Pascagoula River in Jackson County, Mississippi.

During the golden age of American circuses, one performer captivated audiences by locking himself in a steel cage with twenty-seven lions.

A single living organism stood completely alone in an endless ocean of sand, the only one of its kind for hundreds of miles.

Before the Second World War, Jasper Maskelyne was the leading figure in British stage magic.

Deep in the Fishlake National Forest of Sevier County, Utah, what appears to be a vast woodland is actually a single living organism.

Deep in the North Sea sits a rusted anti-aircraft platform that holds the title of the world’s smallest unrecognised micronation.

While plants appear motionless and passive to the human eye, their internal biological systems are constantly performing complex calculations to ensure their survival.