When the George Stephenson-designed railway opened in 1830, the station’s head honcho was given this house as his residence.

Philadelphia is packed with history, art, and food that keeps you coming back. This list rounds up the city’s... The post ...

Despite five heart attacks, multiple surgeries and a heart transplant, Cheney still lived a long life and died surrounded by ...

From ancient philosophers who saw the heart as the seat of the soul to modern cardiologists mapping electrical impulses, ...

Every month, Emeritus Professor of University History Leen Dorsman describes something you must know about the long history of Utrecht University. This time: labs in Utrecht.

Long ago, some saltwater fish adapted to freshwater — and in doing so, developed an extraordinary sense of hearing rivaling ...

Findings show the unprecedented speed of retreat is similar to the dramatic glacier retreats that occurred at the end of the ...

Some of the most mind-bending episodes from sci-fi TV shows will leave you questioning reality, as seen in series like Dark, Black Mirror, and Lost.

Socialism has a well-earned reputation as a secular, rational movement. But not all socialists throughout history were quite ...

Naomi Oreskes, a world-renowned earth scientist and historian from Harvard University, is the recipient of the 2025 Volvo Environment Prize. She is being honored for her influential work on the ...

In the south-east of the continent at Budj Bim (Mount Eccles), modern science can tell us a volcanic eruption happened ...

It was here, surely with the help of this lovely library collection, that Hale invented the spectrohelioscope, which you can ...