Using X-ray fluorescence, researchers have mapped the pigments used on a crumbling painting in Herculaneum
Battered, but not broken, Fritz Koenig's "Sphere" is being reinstalled near its original location at Ground Zero
Two versions of ‘The Scream’ have been stolen and recovered in Norway
Gregory L. Fenves, the president of the university, says the monuments “have become symbols of modern white supremacy and neo-Nazism”
After the ship was sunk by a Japanese torpedo, surviving crew members had to battle dehydration, exposure and deadly shark attacks
William Seward Burroughs (no, not that one) was the first man to invent a commercially practical calculator
You could say the first Mayo Clinic was a dance hall that had been converted into a makeshift field hospital
A genetic study shows how wild Kazakhstan apples dispersed by traders combined with other wild species to create today's popular fruit
Taney, the fifth chief justice of the Supreme Court, wrote the majority opinion in the infamous Dred Scott case
It might seem like collective madness today, but the mechanisms for trying witches in England were enshrined in law
It's just like regular ice cream–with a few big differences
Workers uncovered two rooms of Greenwich Palace while building a visitors center at the Old Royal Naval College in London
Marvin Strombo took the flag from the body of Sadao Yasue during the Battle of Saipan, but promised that he would one day return it
Believers in the Harmonic Convergence traveled to places like Chaco Canyon and Stonehenge to welcome aliens, the resurrected Maya and wait for world peace
Bishop said her advantage in coming up with cosmetics was that, unlike male chemists, she actually used them
Fermat left a lot of theorems lying around. Mathematicians proved them all–except one
Lead isotopes in Roman coins reveal the defeat of Carthage financed Rome's expansion throughout the Mediterranean
Mayor Catherine Pugh said the statues “needed to come down”
It took multiple attempts—and two broken printers—to get the recreations right
Napoleon was a Frenchman of his time, which means he was interested in how science could do good–he just took it farther than most
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