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Starting in the spring of 1939, the Nazi regime systematically killed at least 200,000 mentally and physically disabled people at secretive euthanasia camps spread across the Reich. Over 75 years later, researchers at Germany’s Max Planck Society are scouring archives and tissue sample collections in an effort to find out more about the victims.

Archaeologists have recreated an ancient burial site in virtual reality, to help them study hard-to-access locations at the so-called Plain of Jars site in Laos and the millennia-old relics it contains.

The town of Center, North Dakota, is taking center stage, thanks to a geographer who has figured out that it's in the dead center of North America.

"The snow is very dirty! The snow is very dirty! The snow is very dirty!"

British officials knew in advance that the Chinese government was likely preparing to kill student protesters at Tiananmen Square in 1989—and their intelligence didn’t come at the last minute.

A killer whale thought to be over 100 years old and known affectionately as "Granny" has not been sighted in several months and is thought to be deceased.

A 90-year-old live grenade was discovered in an Israeli museum’s cupboard Thursday.

Experts in the U.K. were stunned recently when a tiny Egyptian mummy, long thought to be the remains of a hawk, was revealed to be a human baby.

Astronomers recently mapped the rarest type of galaxy ever found: an elliptical galaxy sporting rings of young stars.

Letters sent by Princess Diana to a Buckingham Palace official, including one that revealing that Prince Harry was "constantly in trouble" at boarding school, sold for thousands of dollars at a U.K. auction Thursday.

You’ve heard of snakes on a plane, but a snake in a toilet is the real-life stuff of nightmares.

The chimaera, or so-called "ghost shark," is an elusive deep-water fish that has fascinated biologists for more than a century.

Cold, dark, distant Pluto is home to giant ice ridges, and now scientists are closer to understanding how they formed.

Letters sent by Princess Diana to a Buckingham Palace head steward reveal that Prince Harry was "constantly in trouble" at boarding school.

For the first time, scientists have directly traced an incredibly intense, blindingly bright burst of radio waves — known as an FRB — back to its home galaxy.

A video shows a rabid bobcat attacking a wildlife officer on the back patio of a Florida home.

A video out of China reveals a double-edge sword being pulled from its scabbard.

Experts are hoping dolphins’ natural sonar will be able to do what technology has not: locate them, so they can be captured and put in a protective area.

Fragments of a carpet that had been buried at the bottom of the sea for nearly 400 years are now on display in the Netherlands.

By the time they were 3 years old, ostrich-like dinosaurs called Limusaurus inextricabilis had lost all of their pointy teeth, and lived the rest of their lives as toothless beasts, a new study finds.