Using gold flakes, salt water, and light, scientists have made the universe’s invisible binding forces visible in color. The ...

Old houses charm you with thick trim, wavy glass, and staircases that feel like something out of a novel. Hidden behind that ...

In Pirates and Emperors, Noam Chomsky retells the story from St. Augustine’s City of God in which a pirate, captured by Alexander the Great, is asked how he dares to molest the sea. “How dare you ...

A massive star 2.5 million light-years away simply vanished — and astronomers now know why. Instead of exploding in a supernova, it quietly collapsed into a black hole, shedding its outer layers in a ...

For decades, one theory has fascinated historians and the general public: the idea that the Roman Empire fell, at least in ...