When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The National Space Institute was a space advocacy group established by the late Dr. Wernher von ...

The Historical Records Committee, now the History Committee, encourages members of the Ecological Society of America to conserve documents and photos pertinent to the Society’s history and the history ...

Poor Mexico. So far from God, so close to the United States.” The famous words attributed to eight-term Mexican President ...

Reality TV dominates television today. It’s estimated that almost 80 percent of adult viewers watch reality TV shows. But how did we get here? Amna Nawaz spoke with Emily Nussbaum, author of the new ...

Marie Antoinette as a grinning harpy devouring hogs, “Harpie Monstre Amphibie vivante,” engraving (1784) (all images courtesy USC Libraries) From medical deformities to military enemies, the impulse ...

ISA officially was born as the Instrument Society of America on 28 April 1945, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. It was the brainchild of Richard Rimbach of the Instruments Publishing Company and grew ...

The WESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY is Cleveland's oldest existing cultural institution. Founded 28 May 1867 as the Western Reserve & Northern Ohio Historical Society, it was initially a branch of ...

The Science History Institute aims to expand knowledge and challenge perspectives in the history of chemistry, engineering, and the life sciences. Through a wide range of programming, the Institute ...

The aim of the project is to facilitate a more informed and fact-based discussion of the issues surrounding current immigration in the U.S. The study summarizes what we know about how immigrants and ...

This week, a particularly odd little bit of pseudoscience reared its head again when rapper B.o.B. took to Twitter and proclaimed that the Earth is flat. Since then, the rapper has drawn the ire of ...