History

Cancer may have been a bigger menace in medieval times than previously assumed, new research this week suggests. The…

Scientists have re-examined the creations of one of the earliest color photographers, Gabriel Lippmann, who used no…

Bread slicers weren’t exactly the safest things around in the middle of the 20th century. That open blade is just…

Back in 1921, Dr. Charles P. Steinmetz, the pioneering inventor and mathematician, was published in a Massachusetts…

In July 1697, Jacques Sennacques of Lille, France, scribbled off a missive to his merchant cousin, Pierre le Pers,…

Will people actually be staying in space hotels by 2027? That’s the promise of Orbital Assembly and Voyager Station,…

More than 1 million years before the early hominin known as Lucy was striding across the Afar region of Ethiopia,…

Imagine you’re a bank teller with a gun pointed at your head. What do you do? If you’re smart, you’ll just give the…

Need to send a message to a friend 50 miles away? Today, you’ve got plenty of options—whether it’s SMS, email,…