Betrayal, ambition and the double helix: turning Rosalind Franklin’s story and the discovery of the structure of DNA into an ...

Who is on the 100-dollar bill? It's Benjamin Franklin, not a president. Learn why he's on the $100 bill and the history of ...

Benton County celebrates Senator Thomas Hart Benton, and Franklin County honors Benjamin Franklin, weaving together the ...

The Philadelphian came to see that the ideals he championed — liberty, self-determination, human dignity — could not coexist ...

Eyeglasses sit on millions of noses every single day, correcting vision and finishing off outfits. Most people don’t think ...

Principal Brett Umbenhouer warmly welcomed guest speaker Patrick McBride to Liberty-Curtin Elementary School, or as the kids knew him, Benjamin Franklin. Benjamin Franklin was one of several ...

But why do the clocks go back in the first place? After all, the practice didn’t exist until 1916. Benjamin Franklin seems to ...

After capturing hundreds of hours of footage, over a decade, for his new docuseries "The American Revolution," filmmaker Ken Burns knew the epic story had to begin with Benjamin Franklin. Burns was ...

PITTSBURGH, Oct. 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a new fitness training device that would combine the functions of resistance bands and jump ropes," said an inventor, from Lenoir, N.C., ...

After a decade of filming for his new docuseries The American Revolution, Ken Burns begins with Ben Franklin and positions Philadelphia right at the heart of this epic story, writes for The ...

Former Alabama coach Nick Saban called Penn State's midseason firing of James Franklin "unfair as hell." Franklin was fired on Oct. 12, just weeks after his team was ranked No. 2 in the nation. In 12 ...