For typography experts like Thomas Phinney, the history of the printed word is crucial to weeding out fraud.

With recreational marijuana use now legal across Canada, companies are jockeying for market share while bureaucracies struggle to make estimates.

America’s favorite piece of workout equipment was developed as a device for forced labor in British prisons. It was banned as cruel and inhumane by 1900.

The world tends to forget about the annual ozone hole that appears over Antarctica, though we're facing huge and complex environmental concerns.

The works of the Canadian painter Caroline Louisa Daly were for years incorrectly attributed to Charles Daly, a municipal bureaucrat turned artist.

Laterality, or left-right orientation, takes years to master. A surprising percentage of adults struggle telling left from right, including some surgeons.