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Fingerprints, wear marks and other details show the beautiful manuscript was once a teaching tool, not a royal collectible
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Over four decades of TV broadcasting, “Uncle Walter” defined a nation’s news
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The recurring explosions of white dwarf stars produce the vast majority of this important element
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Here are 10 ways life was different in 1908
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Caught by ESO's Very Large Telescope, the ten pillars of gas and dust are a hazy star nursery 7,500 light years away
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Excavations at a rock shelter in the Flinders Range shows people were there 49,000 years ago, hunting megafauna and developing new tools
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The short video was tricky to shoot
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Digital preservation is more work than it might seem
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A proposed project in Cross River State would cut through protected areas and threaten endangered species like the Cross River gorilla
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Reexamination of data from a 1940 skeleton, suggests that the long forearms may match those of the missing aviator
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After 30 years, funding cuts caused one of Edinburgh’s most popular public art galleries to shut its doors
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Millennials have led the surge in java consumption
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More than 100,000 books will become a monument to intellectual freedom in Germany next year
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Human-induced earthquakes could be much older than once thought
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"Out Loud" adds depth to an artist obsessed with the surface of things
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This alternate fate could help smooth tensions over the embattled instrument
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A recreation of the spark-spitting Eric the Robot is once again delighting audiences
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Now more than Popeye’s favorite food, carbon nanotubes are turning the leafy green into a bomb detector
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On this day in 1936, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini declared an axis between Berlin and Rome, coining a term that would be used by both sides in WWII
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