Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

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Researchers have discovered the earliest known instance of human-created fire, which took place in the east of England 400,000 years ago. The new discovery, in the village of Barnham, pushes the ...

Determining the "loudest recorded sound" depends on how you define sound and on which measurements you choose to include.

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Ask him how it all began, and he remembers the ice. It was a bitter morning in January, 1982, when Bernard Cathomas, aged thirty-six, carefully picked his way up a slippery, sloping Zurich street. His ...

But Begum Rokeya must have had an epiphany that made her change her mind. A few years later, in 1911, Begum Rokeya established the Sakhawat Memorial Girls' School for Muslim girls. This was the first ...

Fences, a play by Austin Wilson, presents the character Troy, the hardworking father in the play, as a paragon of Black ...