A massive tidal wave can be a cause for fear in any coastal town. For one small Hawaiian town, Hilo, this nightmare scenario turned into a reality. The stunning footage featured in today’s list might ...

Exploring history's stories and how they shape us.

Stephen Hawking’s legacy transcends language, culture, and scientific study barriers. Just about everyone has heard the name, Stephen Hawking. Hawking’s career focused on classical gravity and the ...

Looking back at the entire history of the world is hardly an easy feat. How could a person possibly round up the most famous individuals from throughout so many countless years? Thanks to the Google ...

The Walt Disney Company recently celebrated its 100th anniversary, making it a great time to look back at its early days. Disney movies are beloved by people of all ages. However, staying relevant for ...

CDs, DVDs, Blu-rays, 4K UHDs. It’s difficult to imagine a world without an extensive collection of discs on our shelves. That was the reality before LaserDisc, though. As the first instance of a ...

Magnus Carlsen, who is only 32 years old, has been the world’s #1 chess player since 2011. He’s known globally as a chess prodigy, having won 125 consecutive games, a record for the longest unbeaten ...

Marie Curie, an emblematic figure in the world of science, has left an indelible mark on the fabric of physics and chemistry. Her unparalleled accomplishments, earning her not one, but two, Nobel ...

DeLorean is to the time machine what Rambo is to a military doll. The famous DeLorean DMC-12 sports car was supposed to be an imaginative and revolutionary concept that would become a commercial ...

Eighty years after his mysterious death, Nikola Tesla remains one of the most prominent and widely recognized figures in the history of modern invention. (Not just because his name was co-opted for a ...

If you stepped back in time to the early 1990s, the idea of a single computer disk holding more than a few megabytes of data would have been considered quite futuristic. All of that changed when a ...