Cabinetmaker to Marie Antoinette, Roentgen designed “surprise furniture,” bureaus and desks that appeared to magically transform at the push of a button.

Franklin’s strategy for analyzing images of DNA molecules forces us to reconsider our definition of “scientific discovery,” argues Michelle G. Gibbons.

Some species go extinct obviously and fast, but just as often, the process can be hard to detect until it’s too late.

Even as televisions spread across the American landscape, the drive-in movie theater grew in popularity in the years following World War II.

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Reeves’s career showcases his transnational mobility as well as a representational flexibility granted by the melding of races, ethnicities, and cultures.

In the Meiji period, geisha embraced the nation’s modernizing project, helping to improve education for women and promoting a western-style domestic ideal.

Calder was known for both his delicately balanced kinetic sculptures and the massive steel abstractions he designed for public squares around the world.

The term “peer review” was coined in the 1970s, but the referee principle is usually assumed to be as old as the scientific enterprise itself. (It isn’t.)