By the interwar years, the rise of postal mail by air and the first commercial airlines had produced the “airways” of the skies, and a Canadian engineer had invented the more accurate quartz ...

After that wreck and others that followed, Parliament established a £20,000 prize (over $4 million today) for anyone who could devise a method to measure longitude at sea accurately. Latitude can ...

Stone tools are considered the first form of technology devised by ancient humans – but they might not have been invented ...

It’s a classic pub-quiz trivia question: who invented Wi-Fi? Australia! The clever country, creators of one of the hallmark technologies of the internet age. On a day the Trump White House is ...

With travel warnings and revoked visas, the two superpowers locked in a bruising trade war may make students and tourists their bargaining chips. By Vivian Wang Reporting from Beijing China has ...

As the 2025 women's NCAA Tournament enters the second weekend, it's time to reset our Final Four picks after action-packed first and second rounds. The Final Four is in Tampa, Fla., at Amalie ...

One of the first to write seriously about a fraught subject, she also played a major role in developing the field of film studies and feminist film theory. By Joanne Kaufman Linda Williams, a ...

Players who have won the career Grand Slam of all four professional majors, the order they won them and how many tries it took before getting the final leg: ...

As inflation continues to hit Americans in the pocketbook, many still hope a DOGE dividend is still possible despite the relative lack of new details on the topic. The idea, which was originally ...

The Library Company reading room on Juniper Street in Philadelphia c. 1935, one of the group’s main locations from 1880 to 1935. The Library Company of Philadelphia Founding father Benjamin ...