I started teaching in 1977, and across my nearly 50 years, I noticed that students were always interested in the history of ...

Harold Ridley successfully implanted the world’s first artificial intraocular lens.

How patrons of the arts became plutocrats aboard yachts. I n the early 1500s, an unknown wealthy patron is said to have ...

Consider three big examples: the evidence for cosmic design in the fundamental laws and structure of the universe; the ...

Egypt was home to the first known scientist, Imhotep, a brilliant Black physician. Famous for designing King Djoser’s Step Pyramid at Saqqara, the Egyptian polymath Imhotep (Greek: Imouthes, c.

Another historical fiction recommendation is the new book from the Nobel literature prize-winning South Korean author Han ...

The international scientific community rebuffed this hypothesis. They were looking outside Africa for human origins and ...

A paleontologist journeys through Indonesia’s Riau Archipelago in search of our earliest ancestors, and uncovers how ...