Medical & Scientific

There have been plane crashes, and disappearing planes, since machines with wings first took flight, well over a century ago. But nothing, ever, has quite astounded, and confounded, like the disappearance of Malaysian Flight 370 on March 8, 2014. An enormous,...

They began nodding off, sometimes for days at a time, for no apparent reason. Perfectly normal villagers, in small-town Kazakhstan, and no one knew why.  In a former uranium mining town, Kalachi Village, several hundred miles from the capitol, it's been an epidemic,...

Sometimes a phenomenon exists, and yet it doesn't.  People keep reporting it.  "Your imagination," say researchers, who can't locate a thing.  It can be animals or flying objects or lights or sounds...Do they exist, or don't they? For years, in the Taos, New Mexico...

She was one of those rare actresses with a sweetness and vulnerability that migrated from the screen to the viewer's emotions.  She had many poignant films behind her, and more than a few in front of her by 2009.  But in her last films such as Abandoned, when she...