Long before Impossible Burgers, China had been making delicious "fake meat" dishes out of mushrooms, nuts and vegetables. Find out what the Chinese knew before the rest of us caught ontainted.

Digital maps might be more practical in the 21st century, but the long tradition of cartography is magical

“Sesame Street” bowed 50 years ago, on Nov. 10, 1969, one week after the launch of PBS.

A new genetic history of the Eternal City reveals a dynamic population shaped in part by political and historical events.

The author, known as the "Lord of Misrule," had the audacity to erect a maypole in Massachusetts.

Complex disease transmission patterns could explain why it took tens of thousands of years after first contact for our ancestors to replace Neanderthals throughout Europe and Asia.

It was designed to grant slave states more influence.

For centuries, bookbinders commonly used whatever materials they could get—including entire manuscript pages.

Plautilla Nelli was likely the first woman in history to paint the iconic biblical scene.

The problem with literature is that there's so much of it. Books go back a long time (like at least ten or fifteen years, I'm thinking), and if you're a student taking an English class, you're supposed to be familiar with basically all of them. But that's impossible. Allow us, then, to suggest an alternate strategy: you fake it. The following literary movements and periods span whole centuries, numerous cultural milestones, and multiple historical turning points, but we have taken the liberty of reducing them all to a single sentence. This should be more than sufficient to convince your teacher you actually did the reading. So, without...

The '60s were all about the moon, while '80s babies saw the first detailed photos of Saturn and Jupiter.

The blogosphere remains a valuable source of information and insight

No fanfare. No cleverly contrived quote for the history books. And yet, at 10:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 29, 1969, three months after Neil Armstrong’s famous step, came another giant leap for mankind. Just months after the first manned moon landing, the ARPANET, granddaddy to the World Wide Web, was brought to life with a rather inauspicious first communication: the letters “L” and “O.” UCLA grad student Charley Kline had been trying to type “LOGIN,”

Early humans living 200,000-420,000 years ago were previously not thought capable of such planning.

Astronomers have discovered intriguing evidence that an asteroid break-up blanketed Earth with dust millions of years ago. The event dramatically cooled the planet and triggered an ice age that was followed by major increases in numbers of new animal species.

A new book highlighting the visual evolution of web design paints a picture of a risk-taking creative culture that hasn’t been quite the same since Steve Jobs stuck a knife into Flash.

Almost any kid out there, and grownup for that matter, has ridden a Cozy Coupe car. If you ask anyone what’s the first car they have ever driven, his or her answer would likely be Cozy Coupe.

Bavarian fossils of likely common ancestor of humans and apes ‘put back start of bipedalism by millions of years’

Twelve years. Thousands of hours of sleuthing. No answers. On the hunt for the three most enigmatic minutes of music

From the perspective of the early 21st century, it’s safe to say that computers have been a privacy nightmare. Our world is so interconnected by machines, that corporations, governments, and almost anyone can find out almost anything they want about an average citizen thanks to our digital footprints. But the late Apple cofounder Steve Jobs gave an interesting ABC News Nightline interview in 1981 where he assured Americans that privacy wouldn’t be a problem if people became computer literate.