The power of modern aircraft is staggering, and these incredible machines grow ever more powerful. When the Heinkel He 178, the first pure turbojet aircraft, first flew in 1939, it did so with 4.41 ...

Researchers have devised a new tool for discerning between naturally occurring viral outbreaks and those resulting from lab ...

The guy pouring my beer in Anchorage told me that he knew there was no truth to decades-old rumors about a research facility 200 miles to the northeast. Nobody was up there talking to aliens or ...

A study combining the growing number of ancient genomes from living people has given us our best picture yet of how humans have evolved over the past 10,000 years or so. It shows that people in ...

In her new book, Darkology, historian Rhae Lynn Barnes writes about how blackface and minstrel shows became one of the most popular forms of entertainment in 19th- and 20th-century America.

Mulugeta Bekele is almost single-handedly responsible for having kept Ethiopian physics going in the 1970s and 1980s despite being imprisoned and tortured by the Ethiopian military. Robert P Crease ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- There's a 20% chance you run into a passing shower Tuesday before our next larger storm system arrives Wednesday. There's a chance for a strong or severe storm on Wednesday, ...

In 2013, historian Rhae Lynn Barnes was researching blackface in America at the Library of Congress when she encountered something strange: Various primary sources on the subject were listed as ...

"You have every sensation of being hurled through space. The machine is throbbing under you with its cylinders beating a drummer's tattoo, and the air tears past you in a gale. In its maddening dash ...

Joe’s Donut Shop sits along Highway 26 in Sandy, and if you’ve ever driven past it without stopping, you’ve made a terrible mistake. Don’t worry, we all make bad decisions.