History is full of strange deaths, but the 20th century had some of the most bizarre. You won’t believe these true stories. Keir Starmer to scrap NHS England and bring it back under government ...

This story appears in the March 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Between 1852 and 1887 the U.S. patent office issued over 100 patents for clothespins. These tools for attaching laundry ...

But panic about satanic rituals has a long and strange history stretching back almost a millennium. Expect toads, horny cats, and rumours of ritual giraffe slaughters - and you'll only be about ...

Doctors continued to investigate how adrenaline works during the early part of the 20th century. In the past 100 years, it's been extensively studied, with more than 12,000 studies referencing it.

There is an interesting, longer history regarding the relationship between food and mental derangement in our country. It started when America’s most famous physician of the Revolution ...

Researchers are moving DNA information from past species to living ones. This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your ...