Fireflies may look like simple summer-night light shows, but each has its own flash pattern used to find mates in tall grass ...

In 1948, mathematician and Gaylord native Claude Shannon theorized that information could be transmitted using ones and zeros ...

On July 31, 1790, President George Washington affixed his elegant signature to a single piece of parchment. The short ...

At Long Island Children’s Museum in Uniondale, kids will be surrounded by red, white and blue streamers, ribbons and stars as ...

This is the end, but who will survive?

The effort to engage young people goes beyond educational programs. At the Memorial Hall of the First National Congress of ...

When we think of 1960s synthesizers it’s usual to imagine instruments with vast arrays of controls and patch cables for configuring their many filters, oscillators, and other parameters. They created ...

Like last year’s “Happy Wife,” this latest novel enters Winter Park’s high life of luxurious mansions, expensive restaurants ...

Canada’s first telegraph message was successfully sent from Toronto to Hamilton on Dec. 19, 1846, by the ...

In 1954, the USPS was looking for innovative ways to process the 54 billion items mailed. National Geographic traveled to ...