Inspired

For 20 years, an unassuming garage in England was the secret home for a World War II fighter aircraft. Its owner was Peter Arnold from Buckinghamshire, who used to wheel the half-deconstructed husk of a Spitfire—Royal Air Force emblem and ...

He survived, and he had to live with it. David Meek watched in horror as plumes of fire and black smoke billowed from the crowded Afghan street where the convoy had been travelling. Live footage was broadcast into the battle ...

Oropherion the eagle and his handler enjoy their little morning rituals. The enormous desert raptor launches from his perch onto the falconer’s leather-armored hand, clasping her glove with bone-crushing power, then he rubs his razor-sharp beak delicately on her nose. ...

Dave Obelkevich is the only person to complete every race since it's multi-borough inception in 1976—and he's still going strong.

Petr Horálek is willing to forego sleep to drive out of town after 3 a.m. and find his dark, precious subject matter. He knows a comet is hard to spot amid city lights; a meteor is even less likely. To ...

On the morning experts had predicted the meteors to fall, Eliot Herman made sure his backyard in Tucson, Arizona, was wide awake. Even if he wasn’t standing out in the cold autumn air, his array of automated, ultra-wide-angle lenses were ...

Mike Parsons picked a newly-printed card from his pocket and placed it in a weathered mailbox along a dusty road in the middle of nowhere. The crisp font explained his mission: He wants to revive the stories of abandoned homesteads ...

The Queensland-based Jonathan Ginn has garnered over 18 million views.

The windows rattled when they first moved in. Amanda DeRise could feel a chill bay breeze coming from every large-pane portal of their six-bedroom fixer-upper from the Victorian era. She smiles now that the windows have stopped rattling. They fixed ...

There is a quiet once again in the field in Bickmarsh, located 45 minutes south of Birmingham, UK. Now that the electronic hum of metal detectors and the sound of scraping shovels have died down, the land has resumed its ...

The American educator and author espoused virtues of personal responsibility, hard work, and perseverance in the face of adversity.

They pulled each other's hair and felt each other's faces, but the twin sisters Hiyab and Wuhbto never looked one another in the eyes for nearly the first two years of their lives. The sisters, from war-scarred Aksum, Ethiopia, were ...

The pop-up notification will push onto smartphones next month, scrambling avid star -watchers to scout for a “planet parade” in the night sky using their astronomy apps. From Nov. 12–28, a parade of planets, or planetary alignment, will string together ...

'I wanted to understand the language of traditional European painting, especially the tradition from the Renaissance,' said Australian artist Andrew Bonneau.

Ancient wisdom offers a timeless guide to friendship—qualities to seek in a friend, and qualities to embody as a good friend.

A city has a way of moving past its fractures. On most weekday afternoons, the South Academy Street Bridge in Greenville, South Carolina, is just a concrete conduit for late-day commuters leaving the downtown office towers—just a mundane hum of ...

At 3,000 feet, the only thing separating Christian Moullec from a flock of geese is a thin veil of mountain air and a pair of leather gloves. The 66-year-old former meteorologist adjusts his throttle, keeping his makeshift microlight aircraft at ...

If you step out onto the porch to gaze at the stars next month, you might notice something different in the night sky. Straining through a thick curtain of modern life—streetlights, digital devices, downtown streets that never sleep—an influx of ...

Not every discovery story unfolds like an Indiana Jones action adventure. Sometimes a fossil can sit collecting dust for 63 years only to suddenly reemerge, and upend decades of so-called scientific truth. And it’s so much cooler when that fossil ...

It looks like a standard suburban parcel when viewed by the curbside observer. No different from any other South Jersey abode. But behind the fence, hidden in the backyard, the Lindell family tends a bustling homestead, growing hundreds of pounds ...

Residents complete a cold turkey drug detox, give the centre control of their finances, including Centrelink, and pay $300 in weekly rent.

In a sterile laboratory in France, Armelle Charrié-Duhaut pores over black shavings of ancient tar to piece together the final, last-ditch voyages of a 2,200-year-old Roman shipwreck. Through a microscope, Charrié—a specialist in ancient chemistry at the University of Strasbourg—focuses ...

To the untrained eye, the land looked worthless. But to Barry Smith and his granddaughters, the 37-acre plowed field at Crater of Diamonds State Park felt less like a construction site and more like an epic treasure hunt. The August ...

The greater bilby hasn't been spotted in the national park since the 1970s when it became extinct in that area.

The ‘Steel Across America’ tour will make a final stop at the White House and end with a ceremony in New York City on Sept. 11.

Broken, bedridden, and severely depressed, Caleb Trahan lay in his Houston home, staring at the .45-caliber pistol on his nightstand. He was 25 and suffering from the physical and mental aftermath of a catastrophic car crash that doctors gave him ...

Australians around the country celebrated the 125th anniversary of their national flag.