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September 16, 20253 min readOctober 2025: Science History from 50, 100 and 150 Years AgoCharming quarks; the first Batman signalBy Mark Fischetti 1975, Advent of Tomography:…

Imagn Images For a while, it appeared that the first ‘Monday Night Football’ game of the season would be remembered as a successful debut for new…

For more than six decades, A-listers have flocked to L.A. hotspot Dan Tana’s — and not just for the legendary chicken parm. Dan Tana, who died…

Bill ConnellySep 4, 2025, 07:00 AM ETCloseBill Connelly is a writer for ESPN. He covers college football, soccer and tennis. He has been at ESPN since…

Of all the presidents, Donald Trump – the man who would remake the Smithsonian and alter its presentation of “how bad slavery was”, as he put…

For your book The West: The History of an Idea, you spent 12 years researching what people mean when they talk about “the west”. At a…

Record temperatures come amid scientists’ warnings that climate change is causing more frequent extreme weather events.Published On 1 Sep 20251 Sep 2025Japan and South Korea have…

No part of the Trump 2.0 agenda has been more revealing to the ideological intentions of the administration than the sustained efforts that insist upon a…

Alamy5. CeremonyLawrence Alma Tadema, A Foregone Conclusion, 1885The sense of suspenseful ceremony is skilfully acknowledged and manipulated in London-based Dutch artist Lawrence Alma Tadema’s charming enactment…

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