Using advanced machine learning and climate models, researchers have shown that the ancestors of crops like wheat, barley, ...

The expression is, ‘handed to you on a silver plate’; but a recent breakthrough came to me on a painted ceramic one.

Bill Finger was born on February 8, 1914, and while he may be most widely known as Batman’s co-creator today, his importance ...

In the early 1970s, Dimitrije Milovich and Wayne Stoveken began building boards meant specifically to surf the snow, testing ...

Carter G. Woodson, the "father of Black history," founded the celebration now known as Black History Month in 1926. A ...

We know the main reason that the age of the dinosaurs came to an end: an asteroid impact on the Yucatán Peninsula some 66 million years ago. But how the dinosaurs’ reign began is far less clear—and ...

See the origins of Black History Month and how Carter G. Woodson helped establish the observance that grew from one week to an entire month.

The Swiss-born stylist who cut the hair of stars like Rod Stewart and David Bowie grew his empire out of Manchester.