We have found 140 quarry sites, where rock was excavated to make seed grinding stones, in the Channel Country of Central Australia. It's part of a major project testing Bruce Pascoe's hypothesis.

The ubiquity of mobile phones is a defining feature of the 21st century, but it's been possible to place a phone call on the go since shortly after World War II.

A scientific dispute takes a violent, absurd turn.

The crimefighter known as the Shadow was a pop-culture sensation who arrived on the detective fiction scene before Perry Mason, Nero Wolfe, and Philip Marlowe, and whose extravagant war on evildoer…

I believe colonial revolutionary Thomas Paine was mistaken in believing himself a godly man. Most of what he wrote reads like pure atheism to me.

Indigenous people lived sustainably in the tropical Amazon rainforest for more than 5,000 years, a study shows.

Ripple effects of the Klan’s takeover of Denver’s power structures in the mid-1920s are still felt, especially after the release by History Colorado last month of digital copies of the Klan’s…

The anti-distraction device is the modern mousetrap: build a better one, and the world will beat a path to your door.

On July 19, 1989, one of the most dramatic events in aviation unfolded in the skies over Iowa as heroic pilots battled to land a crippled DC-10.

In 1300 the women took care of the house and, among the countless tasks the production of beer was also part of the household duties.

Edward Brooke-Hitching set out to curate the ultimate collection of bizarre books down the ages. He leads us around the Madman’s Library

The former heavyweight champion of the world was sentenced to six years in prison for the rape of Desiree Washington in 1992.

Newly leaked documents show that US officials in 1958 cavalierly planned a nuclear strike on China over a handful of disputed islands. As Washington once more stokes tensions with China, it’s a reminder of the callous recklessness at the heart of US foreign policy.

Eat like ancient Great Plains hunters with this simple recipe.

Mo Pinel spent a career reshaping the ball’s inner core to harness the power of physics. He revolutionized the sport—and spared no critics along the way.

For the first half of the 20th century, hungry travelers couldn’t do better than a roadside tea room

Invented centuries ago in France, the bidet has never taken off in the States. That might be changing.

Hidden in the vast, arid expanses of India's Thar Desert lie mysterious old drawings carved into the land.

Recently I visited Whisk, a Manhattan store that sells kitchen goods, and next to the cash register was a strange, newfangled device: a 3-D printer. The store bought the device—which creates objects by carefully and slowly extruding layers of hot plastic—to print cookie cutters. Any shape you can think of, it can produce from a digital blueprint. There was a cutter in the shape of a thunderbolt, a coat of arms, a racing car.

Lois Lew operated the improbable, ill-fated machine with aplomb in presentations from Manhattan to Shanghai. 70-plus years later, she’s telling her story.