Everything scientists think they know about the interior of Mars is based on indirect observations. NASA's new InSight Lander aims to change that.

Before she was killed by Nazis, Charlotte Salomon created a unique, genre-bending artwork that may have also been a confession to a murder.

Today's parents may feel concerned about their kids' obsession with electronic games, but adults have always been suspicious of new kinds of playthings.

Victorian London became obsessed with Ward's cases, which protected plants from the city's toxic pollution -- and piqued peoples' imaginations.

Many of us strive to avoid talking politics at a big holiday feasts. But in Homer's Greece, feasting was all about politics.

Tavares Strachan's “Enoch” was launched into space on December 3rd, 2018. It's the latest in a long line of artworks inspired by Egyptian canopic jars.

Cigarette butts account for a huge amount of human-generated plastic pollution.

New books and scholarship from University of North Carolina, Harvard University Press, and University of Minnesota Press.

Medieval monks used labor-saving innovations like the mill not to increase productivity, but to free up more time for what they wanted to do.

In the Victorian era, a different kind of ghostwriting became popular—largely because it allowed men to take all the credit.