The US military is weird about hands in pockets, and the rules are all over the place ...

"Xmas" is not a modern attempt to remove Christ from Christmas but a sacred abbreviation rooted in early Christian tradition, using the Greek letter chi to represent "Christos." ...

An Ancient Computer That Predicted the Cosmos Discovered in a shipwreck off the coast of the Greek island Antikythera around ...

Can you chip in? As an independent nonprofit, the Internet Archive is fighting for universal access to quality information. We build and maintain all our own systems, but we don’t charge for access, ...

Halafian culture arranged floral depictions on pottery with symmetry and numerical sequences, displaying one of the earliest ...

Does Italian cuisine exist?  Not according to Alberto Grandi, daring food historian and professor of economic history at the University of Parma.  With ...

Two of NASA's giants of cosmic discovery, including a rover that launched from Florida, have been named among Time's best ...

NASA's Webb space telescope (Hubble's successor) and Mars rover Curiosity have been included in Time magazine's list of the ...

Heron of Alexandria was an important ancient Greek inventor of mechanical devices whose inventions included the first steam ...

If you hold a sheet of paper up to the light, it looks almost weightless — thin, soft, and easy to tear. Yet this simple material has carried knowledge, shaped cultures, changed governments, recorded ...