There was a lot of talk about Dame Iritana Te Rangi Tāwhiwhirangi at Waitangi this week. She died recently, aged 95, having ...

Harold Ridley successfully implanted the world’s first artificial intraocular lens.

Gastroenterologist Leonidas H. Berry was born in 1902 in Woodsdale, North Carolina. He earned his M.D. from Rush Medical ...

Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucat n Peninsula of Mexico triggered the extinction of all known non-bird dinosaurs. But for the early ...

Little did Montgomery County, Texas know that on June 18, 1866, a young man would be born to Smith and Sylvie Mitchell Barnes in the small outlying community of Danville Ned Eastman Barnes, as he was ...

I n 1976, the American Viking 1 Orbiter spotted something very peculiar on the surface of Mars. There among the many lumps ...