She and her staff at Union Carbide created synthetic materials that improved various industrial processes, including purifying water. She also developed a way to make emeralds. By Richard Sandomir ...

Edith “Edie” Whitman, 89, of West Hartford, Connecticut, passed away peacefully at her home on January 18, 2026, surrounded by her family. She was born in Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn, New York. She was ...

Bardot's husband, Bernard d'Ormale, revealed the actress had undergone two surgeries following a cancer diagnosis before her death on Dec. 28 Becca Longmire is a digital news writer-reporter at PEOPLE ...

Edith Renfrow Smith died Friday at her home in Chicago. She was 111. In addition to a notably long life — she was one of a very small number of "supercentenarians," or people who live to at least 110 ...

Edith Renfrow Smith, the granddaughter of slaves, died at the age of 111. In 1937, she became the first Black woman to graduate from Grinnell College in Iowa. Grinnell College honored her by awarding ...

Edith Renfrow Smith was born in Iowa two weeks before the start of World War I. Her earliest memories involve the end of the war in 1918 and a neighbor who came home having lost both legs. She met ...

Jan 5 (Reuters) - Edith Renfrow Smith grew up in the 1910s hearing her grandparents’ stories of surviving slavery, including a grandfather who escaped bondage with a group led by abolitionist John ...

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About a year into his job as an interfaith chaplain at Tampa General Hospital in Tampa, Fla., J.S. Park began to have what he calls "really awful death anxiety." "I saw all the ways people could be ...

Edith Anne Finn, beloved wife, mother, grandmother and mother-in-law, passed from this life on December 21, 2025, at Meritus Hospital after a six-week, valiant and hard-fought battle. She fought to ...

While the exact numbers are debatable, scientific research using validated psychometric tools—like the Collett-Lester Fear of Death Scale and the Templer Death Anxiety Scale—has been conducted in ...

An ancient lake that thrived during the last Ice Age has reemerged in California's Death Valley National Park, after a record spell of rainfall hit the area, the National Park Service said. Informally ...