Exams were not invented by any one person, but evolved over centuries from ancient civil service tests—especially China’s imperial examinations—to modern written and standardized assessments with ...

Celebrating Isaac Newton, the genius who discovered gravity, laws of motion, optics, and invented calculus to understand the universe. Jury awards $10 million to teacher who was shot by 6-year-old ...

Personal Chair of Nineteenth-Century Art, History of Art, University of Edinburgh Before we can answer this question, we need to think about another one: “what is art?” Art is something people make to ...

University of Tennessee provides funding as a member of The Conversation US. When people name the most important inventions in history, light bulbs are usually on the list. They were much safer than ...

Detroit's battle cry reverberates with the rumble of eight cylinders — Camaros, Mustangs, Challengers, all burbling that unmistakable muscle-car thunder. The American V8 is an icon, and you'd be ...

Everyone knows we have to thank Thomas Edison for inventing the electric lightbulb, one of the most impactful innovations in human history ... or do we? Regarded by many as the greatest inventor of ...

The history of the first Hemi engine from Dodge is pretty straightforward, but it turns out that the tale behind the first engines with hemispherical combustion chambers requires going down a much ...

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), over 50,000 people have been saved by frontal airbags between 1987 and 2017. Today, these airbag systems are much more complex ...

Now, basketball is one of the most-recognized games on the planet. Its stars are larger-than-life and command major media attention no matter where they go. However, it wasn't always this way. There ...

Carl Hagenbeck opened his Tierpark Hagenbeck in Hamburg, Germany, in 1907. Decades earlier, the impresario had exhibited Indigenous humans in conditions that replicated their home environments. Public ...