In the Cairo Museum sits a strange object carved from schist stone — a 5,000-year-old artifact that resembles nothing else from its time. Called the Schist Disk, it’s so precisely made that engineers ...

Java Development Kit (JDK) 26, a planned update to standard Java due March 17, 2026, has reached the initial release candidate (RC) stage. The RC is open for critical bug fixes, with the feature set ...

The finding, along with the discovery of a 500,000-year-old hammer made of bone, indicates that our human ancestors were making tools even earlier than archaeologists thought. By Franz Lidz Early ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Gunfire erupted early Thursday morning in Parkway Village, killing a teenage boy, police said. According to the Memphis Police Department (MPD), officers responded just before 2:45 ...

Goldie Hawn revealed that the enduring passion she shares with Kurt Russell has played a key role in the success of their 42-year relationship. In a clip from her appearance on "The Dan Buettner ...

A tribute to Reverdy Cassius Ransom / W.E.B. Du Bois -- Reverdy C. Ransom : the making of an A.M.E. Bishop / David Wills -- Black suffering in the twentieth century / Anthony B. Pinn -- Out of the ...

Matthew Mitchell explains how he uses a simple object lesson to illustrate "the principle of overflow," which simply means that our words overflow from what's already in our hearts. I held up a bottle ...

If you were traveling to outer space, what would you take with you? Photographer Steve Pyke got to find out what items some American astronauts felt were significant enough for that. Starting in 1998, ...

A home phone could be the only thing keeping you connected to the world when there's a massive mobile outage. Ian Sherr Contributor and Former Editor at Large / News Ian Sherr (he/him/his) grew up in ...

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