Of 200 accused of witchcraft, 29 were found guilty and 19 were hanged before the governor suspended the trials.

Dig into how the infamous Salem Witch Trials began and why they remain a cautionary tale of the dangers of groupthink and scapegoating.

Beavers almost always seem to be busy working. For this reason, we often call a hard-working person an "eager beaver" or say that the person is "busy as a beaver".

Second only to humans, beavers alter their environment more than any other organism on the planet. These tireless animal engineers face the challenges of predators and the full fury of the elements.

A volcanic eruption and series of earthquakes in 2005 were important not because they did a great deal of damage to humans, but because they are geologic evidence of where Earth’s next ocean will most likely pop up.