In 2023, Apple is sitting on top of the world. At times ranked as the most valuable company around, its influence in technology and media–and even some realms beyond–exceeds almost any other single corporation. But it wasn’t always that way, and much of where the company is today can be attributed to a product released 25 years ago: the original iMac.

How one Englishman’s name has ended up in every dictionary since 1888.

The book is often described as the world’s first novel and a touchstone of Japanese literature. But some of its themes, including its take on gender and power, have echoed over centuries.

The itinerant artist William Bache’s portraits are contaminated by arsenic, but now the National Portrait Gallery offers easy access

Isaac Asimov, one of the most prolific creators in science-fiction history, wrote or edited more than 500 books in his lifetime, including the high-profile ones we all recognize like I, Robot and the Foundation series (hear a version dramatized here).

Roald Dahl’s 1953 short story, “The Great Automatic Grammatizator,” appears to have predicted the rise of generative AI, to an uncanny degree.

Submerged prehistory holds insights on the first humans to live in North America

The realization that people have long eaten putrid foods has archaeologists rethinking what Neandertals and other ancient hominids ate.

A prominent Texas politician said he unwittingly took part in a 1980 tour of the Middle East with a clandestine agenda.

Frank Abagnale Jr. — the man whose life inspired the Leonardo DiCaprio movie “Catch Me If You Can” — has spent decades lying about the lies that made him famous, from impersonating pilo…

In the Middle Ages, the Roman alphabet and Norse runes lived side by side. A new doctoral thesis challenges the notion that runes represent more of an oral and less of a learned form of written language.

The size of the "ideal" penis appears to have increased in recent history, according to a scientific analysis of artwork from the 15th to 21st centuries. The findings have been published in BJU International, a peer-reviewed medical journal.

The Xerox Alto, which debuted in the early spring of 1973, is uncannily familiar today, because we are living in a world of computing that the Alto created. Here's how the Alto came to be.

I couldn't even tell my family when I visited Berlin. This was something else.

Scientists have concluded that renowned poet Pablo Neruda, a member of the Chilean communist party, might have had a toxic bacterium in his system when he died. The finding is the latest in a decades-long investigation into the exact cause of Neruda’s death on 23 September 1973. Although the poet had advanced prostate cancer when he died, some have said that the timing of his passing — 12 days after general Augusto Pinochet overthrew the socialist government that Neruda supported — was no coincidence.

Writing the first draft of open-source and free software's history.

Worried that technology is ‘breaking your brain’? Fears about attention spans and focus are as old as writing itself

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The toxin clostridium botulinum was in his body when he died in 1973, days after Chile’s military coup

A new study explored reasons why some citizens of the former East Germany chose not to view files that the Stasi, the notorious secret police force, kept of them when the archives were opened in 1991. The study was published in the journal Cognition. ...