Cristina Roccati graduated from the University of Bologna when few other Italian women earned degrees, and she taught physics ...

Bacteria have mostly been portrayed as villains that make us sick, but the Human Microbiome Project showed that we share our body with an astounding number of bacteria.

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White supremacy remains a very potent weapon for the powerful in this country and I don't think that the far left should ...

Dr Jakub Beneš has published a new book 'The Last Peasant War: Violence and Revolution in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe' Jakub Beneš’s recently published book The Last Peasant War: Violence and ...

How did a 14th century peasant woman get caught up in a number of religious controversies? Was she possessed? Was she ill? Was she undergoing a divine ‘state of grace’? Vance in Greenland ...

Ireland was invaded and conquered by England in the 17th century, although it remained notionally independent. Its economy was subordinated to Britain’s, its Irish Catholic majority vilified and ...

The central hall of Raffaele Fabrizio’s 17th-century palazzo in Valmorea, Italy, a village near Lake Como, features trompe l’oeil windows and a vaulted ceiling with faux coffered panels.

The Australian batting line-up at the Champions Trophy could have used former star Shane Watson if his blitz in a Masters tournament is any indication. Watson, 43, and Ben Dunk, who played five ...

Yet he has already positioned America to lose the 21st century, in three simple steps: • Alienate your friends. Catherine Rampell is an opinion columnist at The Washington Post.

Close to the centre of the town lies a 17th century walled garden that covers the space once occupied by an ancient orchard and this green and flower-filled garden is maintained on behalf of the ...

The 17th-century oil painting depicts a peasant woman holding tongs with hot coals in one hand and a bucket of water in the other. Until its disappearance, it had been on display at the National ...