The record sheds light on the climate early humans experienced when they were spreading out of Africa. A tree-ringed African ...

Historian Jeremy Black unravels the advent of modern advertising by Josiah Wedgwood, a genius potter during the Industrial Revolution in Britain. Watch the full documentary The Industrial ...

Widely regarded as the father of modern sculpture, Auguste Rodin is one of those historical greats who is known simply by his last name. He has not one, but three museums dedicated to his legacy ...

He would go on to receive various patents for his inventions. Bailey also invented the rapid mail-stamping machine, a device to shunt trains to different tracks, and a hernia truss that was ...

While the discussion of who invented hockey often includes Windsor, Nova Scotia — the first recorded indoor hockey game leads us to Montreal, Québec, in 1875. But the Canadian debate doesn’t ...

The conclave that will elect the new pope is set to begin in a few days, with 133 cardinals in attendance. Although the College of Cardinals consists of 252 members, only those under 80 years old are ...

And 2024 was not the year for the politics of joy any more than 1968 was, when Hubert Humphrey, who invented the phrase “the politics of joy,” tried to practice it in one of the least joyful ...

Phoebe Gates, the youngest and most stylish of Bill and Melinda Gates’s children, steps into the spotlight as a founder of a new online shopping tool. Phoebe Gates, in vintage Chanel.Credit ...

A working seismograph is shown in a display about earthquakes. (Reuters) The United States Geological Survey reported the earthquake was of magnitude 6.2 at a shallow depth of 10 kilometers ...

A seismograph registers little earth trembles. A powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 6.2 has struck Istanbul, Turkey, according to a report from news agency Reuters, citing the country's ...

Did you know Hedy Lamarr invented Bluetooth? Well, sort of. Bluetooth and Wi-Fi (both registered trademarks) are an essential part of modern life. You probably won’t have to look very hard to find ...