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

Starting in 2026, it’s paper only. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed SB 1053 on Sunday, a bill that bans all plastic shopping bags.

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

Striegler's father was a chemist. Her brother is a chemist. Chemistry has been an inextricable part of her life for as long as she can remember. And then there is her temperament.

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

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 ...

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

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

"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., ...

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.

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