The rise of Star Trek fandom didn't begin in a convention hall packed with thousands of fans-it started, improbably, in a public library. On March 1, 1969, just weeks before Star Trek would ...

Four heroic dogs have been immortalised in bronze for the first war memorial of its kind in Britain. The National Military Working Dogs Memorial charity has revealed that work on ...

Deep divisions over how Americans remember their past are coming into sharper focus as the nation approaches the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Judy Woodruff reports for her ...

At the height of the British Empire, just after the First World War, an island smaller than Kansas controlled roughly a quarter of the world’s population and landmass. To the architects of this ...

A newly identified sponge order, Vilesida, produces sterols linked to the oldest-known animal biomarkers, supporting the idea ...

At least 48 boys and young men died during the latest round of initiation ceremonies in South Africa, which involve the ...

This article traces the history of spaceflight from Robert H. Goddard's first liquid-fueled rocket in 1926 to the modern era dominated by private companies like SpaceX. It highlights key developments, ...

Apollo 11 first landed astronauts on the Moon in 1969, but the journey to the lunar surface actually began 43 years before, ...

They farmed its fertile soil, enriched by natural irrigation arising from its location at the northern end of Dominguez Slough, a body of water named for land grant owner Juan Jose Dominguez. He ...

The original Landlord’s Game was designed to warn players about wealth inequality. The version that survived did the opposite.

Explore 40 years of PCR history, from Kary Mullis’s invention story to the rise of digital PCR and how it revolutionized ...

The central lesson of People Power is not that the masses “once saved democracy” and must now do so again, but that no ...