In the macho stunt world, a deaf woman is determined to push the limits. But as her stunts break records, can she keep cheating death? In History's Toughest Heroes, Ray Winstone tells ten true stories ...

In 1829, London physician Dr. Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward sealed a plant inside a glass container - an experiment that revolutionised global plant transport and forever transformed ecosystems, gardens and ...

Wangari Maathai: The first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize The UK’s first black-owned music studio GLP-1: A breakthrough for diabetes and obesity The man who invented the scratch card In ...

Economic books about money tend to feature on academic reading lists - rather than becoming bed-time reading. But Money - A story of Humanity by Irish economist David McWilliams explains how coins ...

Most people believe the MP3 player revolution began with Apple’s iPod in 2001- but the truth goes much further back. In this video, we explore the fascinating story of Kane Kramer, who conceptualized ...

Fox News host Jesse Watters’ inflammatory rhetoric has reached new lows during the second Trump administration. After the right-wing prime-time host said last week that America needed to bomb or ...

Sydney, Australia, 2007 — it was a simpler time: I’d invited some hifi mates over to my house to show them how I use Exact Audio Copy (EAC) to rip a CD to a hard-drive. I remember it took me at least ...

Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone became the second fastest woman to run the 400 meters on Thursday. McLaughlin-Levrone was the first woman to run sub-48 seconds since 1985, according to ESPN, crossing the ...

Enterprising students have been bringing the contraband of yesteryear to school in what they see as a “loophole” in cellphone bans. By Callie Holtermann When Sebastien Wall found out that cellphones ...

When people learn that Keith Erekson works for the Church History Department, they often react with suspicion. A person will say, “Oh, I’ve heard of you guys. You hide the Church’s history. You don’t ...

When he was 11 years old growing up in Britain, Aly Conteh visited a cemetery in northern France where British and Commonwealth soldiers from World War II were buried. Though not a “child who was into ...

A self-guided audio tour brings architecture to life, from the ornate Grand Opera House to I.M. Pei’s modern design. Downtown Wilmington’s Market Street, where a new audio tour uncovers stories behind ...