The first decade of the 2000s, in particular, gave us some of the most recognizable faces of the Olympic Games, many of whom have moved on to further pursuits.
Ghost hunting is not only a reality television phenomenon, but it is also something people do every day. Here is what science has found about ghost hunting.
Lyme disease isn't incredibly common, but it can have significant impact on a patient -- sometimes extremely long-term impact -- that's little understood.
Public figures, particularly national leadership, are the subject of all manner of risk -- sometimes physical, but sometimes of a cruel, personal nature.
In 1972, a suspected key player in the Watergate scandal was found dead in the wreckage of a Boeing 737 with what might be damning evidence related to the case.
While there are 195 countries in the world, there are also many micronations. One such micronation, the Kingdom of Wallachia, has an interesting back story.
Reports of alien abductions are subject to intense scrutiny, both by those inclined to automatically believe them true and those who are more skeptical.
Instead of facing the executioner or dying of old age, Egidius Schiffer departed this world in perhaps the most unusual way ever to claim the life of a killer.
Locales will lay claim to what they believe is a unique part of life there -- the Chicago pizza, for instance -- but Pittsburgh has a unique claim to fame.
Climbing Mt. Everest is seen by any as the ultimate test: a test of physical strength, determination, and knowledge. Marco Siffredi took it one step further.
All manner of phenomena can have an impact on human belief, whether it's cold, hard, fact, the word of a trusted friend, or a myth that just won't die.
There are different kinds of crying: an infant's cries, because of hunger or discomfort; the tears of anguish over a child choosing the wrong path in life.
When a nurse accidentally injected soup into a Brazilian patient in a hospital, the patient died. Now, it's thought the soup may be to blame for her death.