When Elizabeth I’s scientific adviser and “philosopher” John Dee died in 1609 at the age of 81 he left behind a trove of unusual artifacts. Among them was his speculum, a hand mirror made of polished ...

Even though Halloween gets top billing for spooky season, Christmas is equally a time for high strangeness, supernatural phenomena, and paranormal activity. There are flying reindeer captained by an ...

Scientists have shown that an obsidian hand-mirror once owned by the Renaissance polymath John Dee has Aztec origins, thus confirming a longstanding mystery. John Dee was quite the character. Born in ...