Held in Jim Crow–era Nevada on the 4th of July, the 1910 World Heavyweight Championship was slated to be a fight to remember. Moonlighting as a boxing journalist, novelist Jack London cheered on Jim Jeffries — ringside and on the page — as the “Great White Hope", a contender to take back the ti...

Girl with a Pearl Earring

To safeguard threatened plants, science must unravel the hidden biology of often-persnickety seeds as they age, sleep and awaken

From the end of the Civil War to World War I, African Americans experienced extraordinary change. In one respect, they went from being enslaved people to citizens, from slavery to freedom, in a com…

For more than 750 years, strict rules have guarded what cardinals can and cannot eat to prevent hidden messages stuffed inside chicken, ravioli and napkins.

Over the past decade, airlines have spent millions of dollars on safety videos featuring tropical islands and celebrities. Why?

From religious iconography to modern mysticism, the human aura has been a subject of fascination across centuries and cultures.

Visual Studio Code is a powerful and popular source-code editor developed by Microsoft. As a web app designer, I start to use it since one…

For 16 generations, master gardeners in this one family have dedicated their lives to preserving one of the nation's most cherished – and highly sought-out – symbols.