How scientist and soda water inventor Joseph Priestley came to be an enemy of the state.

According to the extramission theory of vision, our eyes send out beams of elemental fire that spread, nerve like, to create the visual field.

In the first century B.C.E., a Roman ship sank near the Greek Island of Antikythera. In 1900 some off-course sponge divers discovered the wreckage.

Tintypes were an early, accessible, cheap form of photography, just the thing for on-the-go Americans.

President Obama made news for being the first President to publish a scholarly article while in office. Many past Presidents can be found in JSTOR. 

A look at early natural history collection methods.

Better know the Middle East