Before photography, the only way to visually document items was through illustration, and women like Deborah Griscom Passmore helped the USDA by creating thousands of paintings of apples and other fru...

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Dietram Scheufele resigned after investigators determined he had sexual relationships with two students and engaged in unwelcome sexual conduct with one.

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The event, which has been awarded the President of the Republic’s Medal, will take place from 29 September to 1 October

We’ve invented microbes that can eat plastic, detect landmines, and extract rare metals. They’ve been swallowed by a black hole.

Between 1924 and 1950, Georgia Tann placed more than 5,000 children—many of them seized from their parents without permission—with wealthy families across the U.S

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A Cold War kid, a Polish apartment, and the word I was trained to fear

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A biography of the physicist recognises his achievements, but also reveals the selfish narcissist underneath