Few fans know the classic hit was inspired by a disaster that unfolded just hours before recording sessions began.

Purple doesn’t actually exist in the visible light spectrum because it’s a nonspectral color created when your brain compensates for the conflicting signals from red and blue wavelengths hitting your ...

This story appears in the June 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. The village chief, a wispy fellow with an easy smile and snowy muttonchops, came aboard James Cameron’s expedition ship in ...