On this significant day in 1824, in Vienna, Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 premiered, marking a pivotal moment in musical history. Despite his profound deafness, Beethoven conducted the ...

This story starts in the fourth dimension. Or, more specifically, with a British mathematician who, in the late 1800s, was intrigued by the fourth dimension and how to teach disinterested children ...

WHEN Humphry Davy first gave nitrous oxide to people with tuberculosis in the late 1790s, hoping it might provide a cure, he couldn’t have known that he was also playing a small but important part in ...

The fact that our country is divided isn’t new. In many respects, it can be traced back to the founding of a nation on the promise of freedom while dependent on slavery, a time when many couldn’t ...