In 1984, Iraq initiated the “tanker war” with Iran when its air force attacked oil tankers bound for Iranian ports. The ...

A Haggada, by Rabbi Dr. Joshua Berman, a professor of Bible at Bar-Ilan University, is built on a claim that scholars of the ancient Near East (Middle East) have long recognized but that has never ...

In the late 1800s, more than a hundred years before smartphones and weather apps, a physicist discovered you could step outside on a summer night, listen carefully, and estimate the temperature with ...

For more than 50 years, Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) has been one of the world’s most influential companies, now a titan in ...

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The Pokémon Company says Pokémon is apolitical, but a Trump spokesman uses decade-old Clinton post to accuse them of bias ...

Homo erectus skulls from China’s Yunxian archaeological site revealed ages close to two million years—a million years older ...

I’ve gone to work on an oyster farm on Block Island, a tiny dot of land midway between Long Island and Rhode Island, every ...

From female scientists whose work was credited to men to ancient high priestesses, these women truly changed history-but were also overlooked by it.

Starved Rock State Park is getting a big-ticket trail overhaul right as hiking season ramps up. An $18 million construction ...

If you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to step into a time machine that only goes backward and smells faintly of fresh ...

Most people would never put Shakespeare and Kendrick Lamar in the same sentence. One composed sonnets for the Elizabethan ...