Letter: Danyah Miller responds to a pass notes column about companies that are hiring people to ‘own the narrative’ ...

An Ancient Computer That Predicted the Cosmos Discovered in a shipwreck off the coast of the Greek island Antikythera around ...

The US military is weird about hands in pockets, and the rules are all over the place ...

NASA's Webb space telescope (Hubble's successor) and Mars rover Curiosity have been included in Time magazine's list of the ...

Two of NASA's giants of cosmic discovery, including a rover that launched from Florida, have been named among Time's best ...

For centuries people have used cosmetics to enhance or decorate the human figure for aesthetic or religious purposes. The earliest archaeological evidence of the use of cosmetics can be traced back to ...

The warp-weighted loom uses a system of holding the warp threads parallel under tension by tying them in small bunches to weights made of stone, pottery or metal. From the beginning of Western history ...

Through their amazing discoveries and contributions, many great minds have changed the world and the way we look at our ...

The newly excavated 4,500-year-old valley temple from ancient Egypt holds a "public calendar" and a roof for astronomical observation.

THE granting of patents in the United States was provided for in the Constitution, and on April 10, 1790, Congress specified how patents were to be issued. It was, however, not until an act of July 4, ...

This story appears in the February 2020 issue of National Geographic magazine. Each February, in observance of Black History Month in the United States, we revisit the stories of notable African ...