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Sheldon's database invention puts him at odds with the university. Also, the church takes issue with Meemaw's video store.

People in North America adopted the bow and arrow as replacement weapons for the dart and atlatl about 1,400 years ago, ...

The Roaring Twenties didn't just roar with jazz, flappers, and speakeasies—it hummed with the sound of innovation. As America emerged from World War I, the decade ushered in unprecedented economic ...

After Murdoch discovers his childhood friend turned private investigator, Freddie Pink, might be implicated in a murder, he ...

“USA250: The Story of the World’s Greatest Economy” is a yearlong WSJ series examining America’s first 250 years. Read more about it from Editor in Chief Emma Tucker. Technology and entertainment in ...

The history of human progress is usually defined by brilliant minds solving the world’s most pressing issues, but sometimes, that creative spark lands on something entirely unnecessary. We live in a ...

Long before Europe saw its first book or compass, China had already invented paper, movable type printing, gunpowder, and directional tools. Known as the Four Great Inventions, these breakthroughs ...

While working as an engineer at Tesla, Niccolo Cymbalist never planned to start a business. But he’d been considering an idea for new technology—an autonomous, wind-powered cargo ship. Then, while on ...

Australia has recorded the highest number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander deaths in custody in more than four decades, alongside a rise in fatalities among non-Indigenous prisoners. These ...

A collaboration between the University of Huddersfield's Archaeogenetics Research Group and the University of Southampton's Center for Maritime Archaeology, has clarified the first settlement of New ...