After a decade chasing comedy in New York, Philly comedian Betsy Kenney found her biggest audience by leaning into her ...

A Woman Froze to Death on an Alpine Trek. Is Her Boyfriend to Blame? A man in Austria was charged in the death of his girlfriend after leaving her behind, in a case testing ideas of freedom and ...

An ancient lake that vanished from California’s Death Valley National Park thousands of years ago has made a rare return after the area was soaked by record-setting rainfall. Recent storms have ...

Horrifying footage has captured the moment a 32-year-old fell to his death during a game of pickleball in Malaysia on December 2. The man, who has not yet been named, can be seen leaping over the ...

Editor’s Note: This is one of Popular Mechanics’ greatest stories. It was initially published in December 2022. On December 9, 2013, 13-year-old Jahi McMath was checked in to Oakland Children’s ...

For centuries, the prevailing explanation of how the Black Death entered medieval Europe was a simple narrative of biological warfare. During a siege of Caffa, a Genoa-controlled port city on the ...

A volcanic eruption in 1345 may have kicked off a series of events that led to the Black Death sweeping through medieval Europe. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Elden Campbell grew up watching the very team he’d play for in his years-long basketball career as a Los Angeles native. The former Lakers center played in the NBA for 15 years before retiring in 2005 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By the time the Amtrak train rolled into Denver early on a September morning nine years ago, 28-year-old Marina Placensia was dead in car 510, seat 22. Her ...

A man who climbed over 18 feet to enter a lion's enclosure in a Brazilian zoo was fatally attacked in front of horrified visitors. Gerson de Melo Machado, 19, was mauled to death after he invaded a ...

Have you ever heard of the Beaufighter, the heavy twin that enemies nicknamed “Whispering Death”? In this episode we trace its evolution from Beaufort bomber derivative to radar-equipped night fighter ...