Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly ...

The Alabama Department of Revenue announced that the state's 21st annual Back-to-School Sales Tax Holiday will run from 12:01 ...

Spliff in hand, the Greek artist and architect explains how his Venice pavilion was inspired by Picasso’s Guernica, Charlie Kirk’s widow … and a hatred of pavilions ...

Miraculously, however, a library of ancient scrolls at Herculaneum survived—in a carbonized form so fragile that scholars ...

According to researchers at Imperial College London, humans shed around 200 million skin cells each hour—and they have to go ...

Nancy J. Allen never gave up on writing — even after losing a novel to a computer crash. Now at 80, her first book is out.

New laws in California and New York might stop anyone from 3D printing guns — and create entirely new kinds of surveillance.

The comedian and director David Wain talks about the State, making his first film in eight years, and the challenges of ...

For generations, writing up a summary of a patient exam was a vital step for physicians trying to make an accurate diagnosis.

"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel." 📺 But what does it all mean? Does anyone know what the color of television tuned to a dead channel even looks like ...

A middle school in an upscale New Jersey suburb has started taking back yearbooks after it discovered a photo of Adolf Hitler ...

From a chili pepper to a pant-less lion.