The Book of Curiosities of the Sciences, and Marvels for the Eyes, an eleventh-century Arabic geography, is still a wonder.

Alice Roosevelt set the tone for a more public first kid and laid the foundation for post-White-House activism like Chelsea Clinton’s.

What makes Star Trek essential for any contemporary tech user is its role in helping us understand our relationship to technology.

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How do fish swim? Having fins and tails help, But it takes more than that to be fast and avoid danger. Diving into fish physics.

Those who view animals as property misunderstand the nature of property, a legal scholar suggests.

The Caribbean islands' plights have been reminders that despite their small size, overseas territories can be a big responsibility for governments abroad.

All over the world, researchers are trying to better understand a world in constant flux and to prevent species from extinction as they battle for survival.

In nineteenth-century American women's magazines, Native American women were depicted as attractive, desirable, and pious.

Ironically, it was movies that helped accustom American viewers to television in the first place, writes Richard Koszarski.