Today, we celebrate the towering life and legacy of Benjamin Franklin—printer and philosopher, inventor and diplomat, public servant and patriot, and one ...

Images of plants painted on pottery made up to 8,000 years ago may be the earliest example of humans’ mathematical thought, a study has found.

Today, when NCERT textbooks assert that Brahmagupta and Bhaskaracharya developed algebra independently and before Arab ...

Sandwich History: One of the earliest known examples can be traced back to China around 200 BC. Few foods are as universally loved and effortlessly convenient as the sandwich. From breakfast toasties ...

James Moylan, who thought up the little arrow on your gas gauge that tells you what side of the car your fuel filler sits, has passed away. Moylan was a Ford interior trim designer who came up with ...

The origins of nuclear power are complicated because it wasn't discovered by a single person. Nuclear power is a product of many scientists and engineers who worked across generations and borders.

When people name the most important inventions in history, light bulbs are usually on the list. They were much safer than earlier light sources, and they made more activities, for both work and play, ...

Support journalism that digs deeper into topics that matter most to ArkLaTex. Donate today to preserve the quality and integrity of local journalism. The holiday season again is upon us, and that ...

Kwanzaa is a nonreligious, secular holiday that is mainly celebrated in North America and the Caribbean. What does Kwanzaa mean in Swahili? The word Kwanzaa is derived from the the last word of the ...

Kids in elementary school learn—or are supposed to learn—how to add fractions and round numbers. But many students at the University of California, San Diego—a top public university ranked sixth ...

Until recently the Arcement family wondered how they were going to move thousands of boxes of unsold board games filling their garage. Now they’re just trying to keep up with demand. What changed?

In the summer of 1956, a group of academics—now we’d call them computer scientists but there was no such thing then—met on Dartmouth College campus in New Hampshire to discuss how to make machines ...