For much of the century, newspapers and popular novels were filled with sensationalistic tales of similar lives. What made these stories stand out was how they crossed assumed borders of gender and sexuality.

Fossilised footprints, and more rarely, hand prints, can be found around the world; left as people went about their daily business, preserved by freak acts of geological preservation. In new research our international team have discovered ancient hand and footprints high on the Tibetan plateau made by children.

In 1938, Heinrich Himmler, a leading member of Germany's Nazi party and a key architect of the Holocaust, sent a five-member team to Tibet to search for the origins of the supposed Aryan race. Author Vaibhav Purandare recounts the fascinating story of this expedition, which passed through India.

The internet as we know it today began with a coffee pot. Despite the ring of exaggeration, that claim isn't actually so far-fetched. When most of us go online, we expect something new: often not just something new to read, but something new to watch.

Scientists discover how snakes survived and diversified after the extinction event that killed off the majority of species on Earth, including dinosaurs.

Ksenia Coffman’s fellow editors have called her a vandal and a McCarthyist. She just wants them to stop glorifying fascists—and start citing better sources.

Consumer patriotism is the American way.

Thanks to nostalgia, the literary legacy of the USSR has a long afterlife.

Two cult authors both wrote about human nature – and the horrors that technology can unleash. Dorian Lynskey explores the parallel lives of the writers whose work still resonates.

Is the manuscript tucked away somewhere? Was it destroyed? Or are the few known chapters all that ever existed? A deep dive into one of literature's most enduring riddles.

What happened to the four children?

A cartoonist discusses his new show about the development of an American art form.

Jørgen Brønlund's diary contained information that wasn't written on the page.

Arthur C. Clarke, the science fiction writer best known for penning "2001: A Space Odyssey," accurately foresaw the future of the way we live.

Three Texas authors expose the myth that the 1836 battle at a San Antonio mission was about freedom. It was about slavery

The gun that killed American Wild West outlaw Billy the Kid sold for more than $6 million at auction on Friday in Los Angeles, more than double the pre-sale estimate.

We have forgotten the primeval forests and expansive grasslands where wildlife thrived, an ecological amnesia. We must work to remember, regenerate, and restore

If we’re approaching the golden age of the electric vehicle, it’ll be the second time.

Clues pointing to a shadowy Russian army

In 1969, the Zombies had a huge hit single, despite having broken up two years earlier. To meet the unexpected demand, one promoter did the only sensible thing: hire four kids from Texas to tour America pretending to be a defunct British psych-rock band.