A video recreation of a woman in a brothel is a display within the New Orleans Storyville Museum. Image: Chelsea ...

The life of Oskar Picht, a German teacher and inventor, is being celebrated with a Google Doodle today, Monday 23 September ...

This makes paper airplanes incredibly accessible and popular as there's very little to stop anyone from creating one wherever ...

Home to two restaurants that both claim to have invented the French dip, L.A. has plenty of sandwich history to dig into ... Depending on my mood, I might crave the specific zing of the hot peppers on ...

"I wanted to create a quick and easy way to wrap a gift without the need for scissors," said an inventor, from Hopkins, S.C., ...

Inspiration is unfair. Most inventors get a miserly one or two good ideas during their careers, while it rewards a select few ...

科林·伦福儒（Colin Renfrew），英国著名考古学家。他的名字与20世纪许多重要的考古学理论建设相关，包括“过程主义考古学”、“新考古学”、“认知考古学”、“前印欧语系”的起源等。伦福儒早年就读于英国剑桥大学，受到格林·丹尼尔（Glyn ...

The earliest written records of soap-like substances date to around 2500 B.C. in Mesopotamia. Clay tablets indicate that the ...

If you've thought frozen food was a modern-day invention, think again. The concept has been around for a long time and among ...

While the exact date at which human beings began to run remains shrouded in the mysteries of time, evolutionary biologists ...

The dodo, now long gone, is fixed in society’s imagination as a species seemingly invented for the sole purpose of becoming ...

Sir William Henry Fox Talbot captured the first photographic negative from a window at his Lacock, Wiltshire home in 1835.