Paul Robeson was a superstar of the stage and screen, a talented football player and a music hitmaker. Then came a dramatic ...

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The legendary “Little Foot” fossil may be an entirely new human ancestor. An international team of scientists led by ...

American writers misleadingly interpreted Egypt's past to argue that slavery was a divinely sanctioned institution ...

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For thousands of years, hunters around the world have employed poison-tipped arrows to assist in taking down prey. For ...

Discover the significant world events, notable birthdays, and notable deaths that occurred on January 8. Check what happened ...

He built the Great Mosque at Timbuktu, and Timbuktu became a very important commercial city, having caravan connections with Egypt and other important trader centers in North Africa. All of this made ...

As the American Chemical Society enters its 150th year, C&EN recalls just some of the society’s illustrious roster of ...

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Artist Tony Foster has spent the past 40 years working in places where very few people ever go — the world’s great wildernesses.

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