In the summer of 2013, the streets of London’s financial district suddenly became dangerously hot.

Located about 180 kilometers (112 miles) from Bangalore in the dry landscape of Andhra Pradesh, India, a sprawling canopy stretches across 19,107 square meters (4.72 acres) of land.

In the late nineteenth century, a young deaf woman walked into the Harvard College Observatory and changed how scientists map the night sky.

In February 1896, a prominent French physicist locked a photographic plate and some uranium-heavy rocks inside a pitch-black desk drawer.

In 1894, a bizarre story swept across American newspapers about felines thriving in sub-zero temperatures.

During the height of the Cold War, Western intelligence analysts discovered something inexplicable on satellite imagery.

Deep within the wooden hulls of eighteenth-century warships, a highly volatile cargo waited below the waterline.

Assisting a monarch with bathroom hygiene sounds like the absolute lowest position in a household.

In 2005, the CIA looked beyond drones and satellites to fight Al-Qaeda in the Middle East. They turned to the toy aisle.

In the darkest days of World War II, a Spanish chicken farmer decided he needed to do something for the good of humanity.