Browsing: Origins

With Gregory Maguire’s 1995 novel Wicked, on which the successful Broadway musical and now duo of feature films are based, The Wicked Witch of the West…

November 13, 20252 min readBlue Origin’s NASA Launch to Mars Is a Shot across the Bow for SpaceXAfter delays, Jeff Bezos’ rocket company successfully launched a…

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers for the ending of “Shelby Oaks,” now playing in theaters. So, who took Riley Brennan? Director Chris Stuckmann makes his…

A million-year-old human skull suggests that the origins of modern humans may reach back far deeper in time than previously thought and raises the possibility that…

In 2012, a plucky, headstrong young entrepreneur crashes a startup mixer in Los Angeles, desperately trying to get their big idea off the ground. Naive and…

Scientists have identified the origins of the blue color in one of Jackson Pollock’s paintings with a little help from chemistry, confirming for the first time…

Weather forecasting was still banned under the 1735 Witchcraft Act when the Met Office was founded in 1854Forecasting the weather used to be less scientific and…

A cow’s tooth from a jawbone deliberately placed beside the entrance to Stonehenge at the Neolithic monument’s very beginning in 2995 to 2900BC could offer tantalising…

There are more than a hundred ways to prepare a potato, and thousands of stories have begun with a shot of vodka distilled from this tuber.…

NASA’s Psyche Spacecraft, Exploring Solar System Origins, Is Back on Track after Thrusters Lost PowerThis explorer spacecraft is heading to a rare asteroid with a naked…