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Scholars say this 19th-century artifact could have belonged to the celebrated American painter
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The Beowolf monster is a thousand years old, but his bad old tricks continue to resonate in the modern world
Saudi Arabia’s baby boomers, born after the 1973 oil embargo, are redefining the kingdom’s relationship with the modern world
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Odyssey’s End?: The Search for Ancient Ithaca
A British researcher believes he has at last pinpointed the island to which Homer’s wanderer returned
A clash of cultures at Boston’s City Hall in 1976 symbolized the city’s years-long confrontation with the busing of schoolchildren
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Momentous or merely memorable
One hundred years ago this month, John Paul Jones was welcomed home with great fanfare at the U.S. Naval Academy. But was the body really his?
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As San Francisco burned, 100 years ago this month, a hardy band of men worked feverishly to save the city’s mint—and with it, the U.S. economy
When the Aztec and Maya played it 500 to 1,000 years ago, the losers sometimes lost their headsliterally
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Two robots, neither as graceful as its namesake, but no less accomplished, are among advances keeping scientists on the cutting edge
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To her delight, social worker-turned-scientist Patricia Wright has found the mischievous Madagascar primates to be astonishingly complex
Nothing routine about these assignments
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Two Seattle women have retraced the travels of Caroline Mytinger, who journeyed to the South Sea islands in the 1920s to capture “vanishing primitives”
How I learned to stop worrying and make peace with my nuclear phone
Readers respond to the February Issue
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3rd Annual Photo Contest Winners and Finalists
See the winning photos from our 2005 contest
A small museum illuminates Las Vegas’ past by restoring the city’s classic neon signs
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The ingenious founding father’s only surviving residence, in London, is reborn as a museum
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