A Self-Taught 12-Year-Old Just Published Her Third Peer-Reviewed Scientific Paper
Some of the brightest young minds are publishing original research in real journals before they finish middle school. Th…
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11 Amazing Stories
This 80-Year-Old Woman Runs Over 50 Marathons a Year and Shows No Signs of Stopping
Sister Madonna Buder — known as the "Iron Nun" — completed her first triathlon at 52 and has finished over 340 of th…
A Blind Man Taught Himself to Echolocate Like a Bat — and Now Rides a Bike at Full Speed
Blind from infancy, Daniel Kish trained himself to "see" his surroundings using echolocation — clicking his tongue and…
A 15-Year-Old Found a 1,300-Year-Old Viking Treasure Hoard in His Backyard
In 2018, a German teenager and his archeologist mentor used a metal detector in a field on the island of Rügen — and …
The Man Who Survived Both Hiroshima and Nagasaki — and Lived to 93
Tsutomu Yamaguchi was 3 km from the Hiroshima blast on August 6, 1945. He returned home to Nagasaki — where he was in …
The Human Body Can Run 100 Miles Continuously Using Only Fat as Fuel
When properly trained, humans can run hundreds of miles without eating, drawing energy from body fat. Endurance was like…
A Self-Taught Artist Memorized and Drew an Entire City Skyline From a Single Helicopter Ride
British artist Stephen Wiltshire, autistic and nonverbal as a child, can draw entire city skylines from memory after a s…
One Man's Blood Type Has Saved the Lives of Over 2.4 Million Babies Worldwide
James Harrison's blood contains a rare antibody that prevents Rhesus disease in newborns. Over 60 years of donations, he…
The Sardinian Village Where 10x More People Live Past 100 Than Anywhere Else
In the mountains of Sardinia, the village of Ovodda has 10 times more centenarians per capita than the United States —…
Valentina Tereshkova: The Mill Worker Who Flew to Space Before Any American Woman
On June 16, 1963, a 26-year-old textile worker from Yaroslavl strapped into Vostok 6 and became the first woman in space…
The Monk Who Spent 22 Years Carving a Cathedral Into a Mountain Entirely by Hand
Justo Gallego Martínez began building a vast cathedral in 1961 with no formal training, no permits, and no help. He wor…