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As a city’s population grows, the desire for space to build homes, businesses, schools, and…

Exploring hygiene practices in colonial America reveals a stark contrast to modern cleanliness standards. At…

Hemophilia, an uncommon blood clotting disorder, quietly made its mark in history, secretly coursing through…

Mount Elgon, an extinct shield volcano in Kenya, is a remote and inaccessible place for…

In the midst of the Black Death, a peculiar group emerged who became known as…

We like to think our governments create legislation to protect us, using it as a…

Inside the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, a world of wonders unfolds. With a…

Allergies are a normal part of everyday life. Lots of us have them, some are…

In the mid-19th century, the concept of handwashing was met with surprising resistance. Ignaz Semmelweis,…

The Silk Road was a true wonder of the world, a network of both land…

The 20th century has, without a doubt, seen humanity at its most destructive. More people…

The human body is a miraculous thing. Millennia of evolution: random mutations, trial, and error…

The proverb “You can’t make an omelet without breaking some eggs” is fairly straightforward: in…

Europeans were so fascinated with Egyptian mummies and thrilled at the chance to buy them…

The Salem witch trials, which resulted in several deaths in 1692 in the small town…