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Rosie Pearce said it was one of those surreal moments that leaves you wondering whether what you’re seeing is actually real.

When three children die of leukemia in a rural Mexican community, two mothers partner with a scientist to investigate their water supply. Their discovery of dangerous radioactivity leads to community ...

Medieval toilets were simple, exposed, and dangerous. Waste often dropped directly into streets or water sources. Hygiene was minimal by modern standards. Disease thrived in these conditions. Even ...

What began as an unplanned streak of family trips morphed into a globe-trotting mission, culminating with an Upper West Side couple's 7-year-old shuffling across Antarctic ice this fall, bundled tight ...