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 ...

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 ...

More than six months into a national crackdown on illegal immigration touted as targeting violent offenders, immigrants who have never been convicted of a crime now make up the majority of those ...

Jamaican innovator Rayvon Stewart has introduced a technology that could change the way hospitals and other public spaces handle hygiene. His creation, known as the XermoShield, is a smart door handle ...

Bad Bunny has revealed the real reason he chose not to include the United States in his upcoming 2025-2026 tour. The Puerto Rican rapper, whose real name is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, claimed ...

Under an eclipse of history, Greece’s lost machines show that progress is fragile and must be rediscovered. Credit: Greek Reporter archive Most people think of ancient Greece and immediately picture ...

Should a golf course have the right to dictate which tees you play from? The question sparked a recent debate on Reddit (and was kicked around on the Fore Play Podcast), where a user posted a picture ...

For the first time, more Americans blame Republicans than Democrats for rising inflation, according to a new Cygnal poll. Last year, Democrats carried the bulk of the blame for inflation, with nearly ...