As everyone knows, on April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first person to reach Earth’s orbit. He launched aboard the ...

A pygmy legged dragon from Kyrgyzstan, ungulate whales and a live granny rug.

Cryptozoology is a field of knowledge devoted to searching for and studying animals whose existence is disputed or not proven by science. Such creatures are called cryptids. There’s also cryptobotany ...

Robert Koch put up a fight against the "invisible enemy," that is, tuberculosis. An unheralded country doctor made a significant contribution to medical knowledge at a time when physicians were ...

Without the Moon, our planet would be nowhere near as conducive to life. If the Moon did not exist, the first cells and organisms could possibly have developed much later or even never. The Moon seems ...

When Charlemagne died in 814, his son, Louis the Pious, succeeded him on the throne. After his death, the Treaty of Verdun confirmed the division of the Carolingian Empire into three kingdoms.

During the Seven Years’ War, which was the first world war, England, Prussia, France, Austria, and Russia fought each other. The war took place from 1756 to 1763. In the mid-18th century, strong ...

It’s unclear whether a single, very high dosage of vitamin C given at the first sign of a cold would be enough to halt the illness. For two-time Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling, the matter was clear.

From the time of the Renaissance forward, these fortresses were renovated into elegant mansions complete with gardens, turrets, and other architectural flourishes. The Latin “castellum” refers to a ...