Despite intensifying concerns over security, airports play a vital role in teaching children about the interconnected world in which we live.

As the Middle Ages progressed, monasteries became a major engine of economic activity in European communities.

A group of scientists from Buffalo tried to definitively prove whether or not the Yeti exists, examining DNA from a variety of hair and tooth samples.

Under coverture, married English women had no rights to their property, even though unmarried women did, making for a unique system in Europe.

Kelp, yeast, and sequestered methane gas are on the forefront of the move to create environmentally friendly clothing

Margaret and Frances Macdonald and their Glasgow School of Art classmates Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Harold MacNair were Art Nouveau's Glasgow Four.

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A new drug-resistant malaria strain is spreading in South-East Asia. Farmers may be using fewer anti-biotics. Engineers are studying national disasters.

Parasitic diseases can be effectively eliminated, but they can persist even in developed countries with effective healthcare systems.

Back in the 1920s and ‘30s, the magazine Women’s Home Companion tried explicitly appealing to its readers to take the ads seriously.