The Getty — with its multibillion-dollar endowment — has emerged as a beacon of fire preparedness as deadly blazes have razed swaths of Los Angeles.

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WASHINGTON – A message of peace and hope penned in 1977 by the late President Jimmy Carter is attached to spacecrafts currently floating in interstellar space, intended for an audience of alien ...

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A centuries-old Buddhist model of the universe has new meaning for the shortest of days and longest of worries. By Holland Cotter The Metropolitan Museum of Art is, in these darkest days of ...

Christopher Nolan’s next cinematic venture is of epic proportions. Universal Studios confirmed Monday that Nolan will direct an adaptation of Homer’s The Odyssey, the ancient Greek epic ...

Less than 0.1 per cent – a thousandth – of Ireland is now ancient forest. That figure compares, for example, to 2.5 per cent in England, ie over 25 times less. But it’s even worse: here ...

The absence of modern-day calculators did not stop ancient cultures from performing extraordinary feats of mathematics. The ancient Greeks kept count with abaci, frames with rods or grooves for ...

The ancient Egyptians celebrated the new year in a variety of ways, including having feasts, giving gifts, and exposing statues of gods to sunlight so they could be "regenerated." When you ...