In 1863, the world of billiards was in trouble. Ivory, the standard material for billiard balls, was in short supply. To solve the problem, one of the biggest names in the game offered a $10,000 ...

The Bay Area Maker Faire was this weekend at Vallejo's Mare Island. Makers showed off robots, drones and all sorts of unusual forms of locomotion. Presentations taught aspiring makers from 2 to 92 how ...

Mysterious and—like the lives of many rebels, Romantics and rock stars—short. In 1593, when he was 29, Marlowe was stabbed in ...

Prince Harry has accused palace figures of "sabotage" after his tea with his father, while Prince Andrew faces new scrutiny ...

In a book excerpt from her new Birkin biography, the author marks the moment when a 16-year-old Brit began her ascent toward becoming the ultimate French style icon.

Gatorade was invented for the Florida Gators in the 1960s, when the football team was having trouble with its players' health ...