The first 20 minutes of “Dune: Prophecy” certainly leaned into the dense lore and history of the universe. The series begins by recounting the humans’ long and bloody war against the “thinking ...

The jukebox got its start earlier than you might think, but it truly became iconic when rock 'n' roll took over in the 1950s ...

A roomsize computer equipped with a new type of circuitry, the Perceptron, was introduced to the world in 1958 in a brief news story buried deep in The New York Times. The story cited the U.S. Navy as ...

The idea of creating a "universal library" that contains the entirety of all the human knowledge and heritage has inspired the imaginations of the brightest minds of scholars and humanists since ...

Conservation of energy isn’t just a good idea: It is the law. In particular, it is the first law of thermodynamics. But, apparently, a lot of people don’t really get that because history is replete ...

Christie's will sell an example of the first calculating machine in history, developed by Blaise Pascal in 1642, at an ...

Intuitive Machines has landed a spacecraft on the lunar surface, in a historic first for a private company. Flight controllers confirmed the landing at 5:23 p.m. CST, though the exact condition of the ...

In Colorado, the 12,000 square foot Lee Maxwell Washing Museum is running out of space. Lee Maxwell, 93, has been collecting washing machines since 1985. In 1992, he opened the Lee Maxwell Washing ...

Most people assume that eating machine matzah is some type of leniency. Although the heated controversy was 20 years away, this story really begins in Ribeauvillé, France, in 1838 when the first ...