Fritz Haber was a chemist who made discoveries that improved global agriculture… but also helped spawn the modern era of chemical warfare.

Gypsy Rose Lee, the most famous burlesque star of the 1940s, wrote a series of letters published by Simon & Schuster that may prove her authorship.

When temperance advocates won the ban on absinthe in 1915, many of them saw it as the first step in a broader anti-drinking campaign.

Sex between people of the same gender has existed for millennia. But anthropologists in sub-Saharan Africa often ignored or distorted those relationships.

The zone above 8,000 meters is known among mountaineers as the “Death Zone.” Why do most deaths in the high mountains occur at these extreme heights?

The British Ladies Football Club held their first match at Alexandra Park in Crouch End, London in 1895.

The most lavish among them were festooned with colorful appliqué and brightened with gilded leather.

When Google runs a smart city, who owns the data?

And other 4th of July facts.

The 4th century was a turning point for the role of scent in the Christian church.