History

Solar eclipses come around so infrequently, it feels like a historic event just to even witness one. But some eclipses from history have taken...

Most dying stars go out with a bang — a supernova, more specifically. But scientists recently observed a star that went out with a...

Tropical Africa (133,000 B.C. to 88,000 B.C.) By extracting sediment cores from Lake Malawi, one of the largest and...

Summary Noodles started out as dumplings: just little balls of flour and water. At some...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fossils unearthed in southern Germany of a remarkable ape that lived about 11.6 million years ago may dramatically alter...

The discovery of gold nuggets in the Sacramento Valley in early 1848 sparked the California Gold Rush, arguably one of the most...

Earthquakes were a pretty common phenomenon in ancient Greece — terrifying and destructive, sure, but also a known risk of living in...

If you were to tromp across the Nasca Desert of southern Peru, you'd likely walk across enormous designs in the ground —...

Submerged cities are, by their very nature, baffling to behold, but sometimes these underwater towns are discovered under especially mystifying circumstances. From...

Dating back to the ancient Hindu Rishis, many people had proposed that humans could change temperatures and influence rainfall by chopping down trees, plowing fields or irrigating a desert.

Plastic is a word that originally meant “pliable.” It only recently became a name for a category of materials called polymers. The...

Bajirao I was the Peshwa (Prime Minister) to the fourth Maratha Chhatrapati (Emperor) Shahu. A courageous warrior, he is credited with expanding...

Sister Brigitte Queisser walks slowly along the decaying remains of the Berlin Wall, its rusty rebar reinforcement exposed where the concrete has...

Antoine Deparcieux (28 October 1703 – 2 September 1768) was a French mathematician. He was born at Clessous in the Portes, department...