Jackson likes getting up early. “If I didn’t have to sleep, I wouldn’t.” Annie Flanagan A 1993 riot at the facility—some years after Jackson was transferred out—left one guard and nine ...

Its silhouette has become an icon of popular culture; its larger-than-life sound transformed modern music. Once shunned as a novelty and feared as subversive, the electric guitar is now equally at ...

Most of what we know about the elusive creature comes from research on its remains found in whale stomachs, but scientists ...

“Going to a theater, with that large of a screen, really makes you feel like you’re part of it, and I think that’s what was ...

A composite false-color image of fire in space. The bright yellow traces the path of a drop of fuel, shrinking as it burns, producing green soot. Paul Ferkul / NASA Recent tests aboard the ...

Looking for a really big story, I naturally headed for "Galaxies in Collision." Bradley Whitmore of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore brought us up to speed. We've known for a ...

Chinese researchers analyzed the first-ever soil samples returned from the far side of the moon, but further samples will be ...

Abraham Lincoln, the greatest American president, was also in my view the best of all presidential speechwriters. As a youngster in Lincoln, Nebraska, I stood before the statue of the president ...

"The North Wind," painted while Emily and her sister Charlotte were studying in Belgium, is now heading to the Brontë family ...

A keen observer as well as celebrated wit, Arcimboldo created composite portraits that were both enjoyed as jokes and taken very seriously. Skokloster Castle, Skokloster The job of a renaissance ...

Hotel magnate Conrad Hilton fulfilled his dream to purchase the Waldorf-Astoria in 1949. He called the luxury hotel on Park ...

Jaclyn Greenberg is a freelance writer. She has written for the New York Times, CNN, Wired and other publications.