Racial and political litmus tests destroyed Germany’s scientific leadership, just as it threatens to do in America today.

When she was only 17 years old, Malala Yousafzai became the first teenager to ever win a Nobel Prize. Decades earlier, Albert ...

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce.” Marx’s aphorism feels newly prescient. Last week, the U.S.

When you arrive at Winston Churchill’s country home, Chartwell, near Kent in South East England, you understand why he was ...

Physicists describe the microscopic world using a weird theory called quantum mechanics. The year 2025 is the International ...

Short on cash to tip a bellboy in a Tokyo hotel, Einstein wrote two notes with life advice on hotel stationery that sold at ...

Erwin King's nieces and nephews accept a diploma on behalf of the World War II casualty. King left school to join the Marines ...

There is no theme for this column. Just good books.

Dead skin cells are a main ingredient in household dust Here’s an interesting (and gross) science fact for you: According to ...

Friday marks 81 years since D-Day, the first day of the Normandy landings that laid the foundations for the Allied defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II. The invasion – codenamed Operation ...

Garry Linnell is one of Australia’s most experienced journalists. He has won several awards for his writing, including a ...