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A scandal that has shaken confidence in forensic science across the United States reached a major milestone on September 8,…

In March 1999, a team of climbers and archaeologists reached the summit area of Llullaillaco, a volcano more than 6,700…

In parts of rural China, and among Chinese communities across Taiwan and Southeast Asia, there is a practice of arranging…

In the highlands of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, a person’s death does not end their presence in the household. Among the…

At a Korean baby’s first birthday party, after the cake and the photographs, there is a moment the whole room…

Every year, at the ragged edge of the Sahara, hundreds of Wodaabe herders converge after the rains to trade cattle,…

Deep in the Brazilian Amazon, along the border of the states of Pará and Amazonas, the Sateré-Mawé people practice one…

In the central highlands of Madagascar, when the dry season arrives between June and September, families gather at ancestral tombs…

Visitors at a Seoul aquarium witnessed an unusual display of shark-on-shark aggression after a large female sand tiger shark attacked…

On January 18, 1915, the ship stopped moving. Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance had spent six weeks fighting through a thousand miles…