History

Find new ways to fill the long summer days with these quick primers on 10 ancient games

From ancient clay tablets to TV shows to video games, the U.S. Library of Congress preserves far more than just books

The gooey, chocolatey s’more couldn’t have been popularized without the technological advances of the Industrial Revolution, which brought cheap sweets to the masses

Death rays; the sawfly’s barf defense

Brawls over the honesty of online and cable news today owe their origins to World War I and a debate that divides us still

The next time you snap a selfie, consider thanking an astronomer for your phone’s camera

Puzzling Havana Syndrome injuries that have afflicted U.S. diplomats may have a more complicated explanation than solely pulsed microwaves or mass psychology

Activists who seek to revive this antiquated law share with Anthony Comstock, the Comstock Act’s namesake and progenitor, a similar view of women as subordinate to the decisions of men and God

Walking barefoot on hot stones; what makes bluebirds blue

A mysterious 12-sided object called a dodecahedron discovered in England has archaeologists both excited and baffled

When poet Jessy Randall saw that so many female scientists weren’t getting their due, she got mad. And then she decided to write poems for as many as she could

Repression draws attention to campus protests, like those over the conflict in Gaza, and makes them grow