Camp Century, built in 1959 in northwest Greenland, was a never-completed secret launch site for ballistic missiles to reach the Soviet Union. As ice began to crush the site, the US abandoned the ...

In April, two scientists surveying the Greenland Ice Sheet found Camp Century, a Cold War U.S. military base while attempting to map the ice sheet. “We were looking for the bed of the ice and ou ...

The singer has been named the second greatest pop star of the 21st century by Billboard magazine, which has been gradually unveiling its ranking in a series of articles. Billboard describes the ...

By Hannah Dailey With the first quarter of the 21st century coming to a close, Billboard has spent the last few months counting down our staff picks for the 25 greatest pop stars of the last 25 years.

In 1820, French scientists Pierre Pelletier and Joseph-Bienaimé Caventou discovered the process to extract and isolate quinine from the bark of the Cinchona tree, which had been used in powdered form ...

Similar losses were attributed to smallpox, which resulted in pandemics during the 11th century (attributed to the Crusades) and the 17th century (due to the immigration of European settlers into ...

Today’s science has become more dogmatic “than the Catholic Church in the 17th century,” Thiel said. "If we fast-forward to 2024 and you asked scientists, ‘Where is science too dogmatic ...

One of the world's "finest and rarest" 17th Century atlases will be put on show for the first time, after experts spent three months restoring it. The Harmonia Macrocosmica by Andreas Cellarius ...

the works are thought to have entered the Royal Collection in the 17th Century under Charles II, several as gifts. For more than 30 of them, it's their first time ever on public display.

How does a historian come to study empty spaces? It was calendars from the 17th century that aroused Landwehr's curiosity. As cheap mass media, they were sold by the millions back then.