The world's earliest computer was a silk loom built in China over two millennia ago, according to a claim made by China's ...

Excavated with colonial labor and shipped to the Netherlands, the famous fossil is being repatriated to Indonesia along with 28,000 other fossils. The skull cap of 'Java Man' was discovered by Eugène ...

Quick question: What anniversary is celebrated on October 25? If you know the answer, congratulations; not many do. It is in fact the end of Japan’s 50-year rule over Taiwan in 1945. At the time, the ...

There are more days in a year than women ever elected to serve on Beacon Hill. In more than 400 years of history, only 243 women have served in the Massachusetts Legislature. That point was made on ...

The two-part docuseries Seen & Heard: The History Of Black Television, which has Issa Rae as one of its executive producers and is directed by Giselle Bailey, takes a somewhat chronological look at ...

In “Seen & Heard: The History of Black Television,” the new two-part history of Black representation in television, Justin Simien is asked about the elephant in the room known as Bill Cosby. Simien, ...

Award-winning actor producer and writer Issa Rae is opening up about what inspired her new documentary, "Seen and Heard: The History of Black Television." She's executive producer of the two-part ...

Award-winning actor, producer and writer Issa Rae speaks to "CBS Mornings" about a new documentary called "Seen and Heard: This History of Black Television." She is executive producer of the two-part ...

Taxes are going up. Debt is skyrocketing. Priorities are out of whack. The government is rounding up citizens. And what are the parties doing? Gerrymandering for power. What is the president doing?

This essay draws on theories of political philosopher Hanna Pitkin and cultural studies scholar Stuart Hall to consider youth representation in terms of relationships between cultural representation ...

Using an advanced Monte Carlo method, Caltech researchers found a way to tame the infinite complexity of Feynman diagrams and solve the long-standing polaron problem, unlocking deeper understanding of ...

In 1938, Congress forced a flag on the District like parents picking a toddler's outfit - complete with a pseudo-heraldic design by a federal committee. The irony? DC still can't govern itself. We ...