The bow and arrow arrived across western North America almost all at once, offering new insight into how fast ideas can ...
The discovery of a 2,000-year-old Roman artifact in Mexico could upend our understanding of the New World, raising the possibility that Italians arrived in the Americas long before Christopher ...
New York has been missing one of its most consequential institutions of contemporary art for two years now, ever since the New Museum shut its building in Lower Manhattan to prepare for an $82 million ...
A Tudor-era hull dug out of a Kent gravel quarry is filling in a crucial missing chapter of British maritime history.
Agriculture changed the human story forever, jetpacking our species into an era of unprecedented growth and complexity. But the shift from wandering hunter-gatherer to settled far ...
New research reveals how the invention of a crucial Ice Age technology helped humans defend against extreme cold during ancient global migrations.
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Most people wouldn’t put “barbed wire” and “fascinating” in the same sentence unless they were being sarcastic or had recently hit their head. Yet here we are, talking about the Devil’s Rope Museum in ...
Apple is 50 years old on 1 April and to mark the occasion, CEO Tim Cook has been doing some select interviews as well as writing an open letter to its users, employees and developers ...
Alexander Graham Bell was not the only person trying to invent the telephone. But 150 years ago, he won the race – just – and ...
The patent for the telephone turns 150 today, the first call was made three days later on March 10, 1876.