Lil Nas X just knows how to go viral. That much was abundantly clear when he took the stage at the 2019 MTV Video Music awards in Newark, New Jersey on Monday night. Clad in his now-iconic red cowboy ...

In A.D. 79, Mount Vesuvius erupted violently, spewing pyroclastic flows across the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. The eruption has become one of the most famous in history because the speed ...

Eric Siblin is the author of the novel The Fatal Scroll: A Herculaneum Mystery. Plato, it might be presumed, was a big reader, but never turned the pages of a book. The Greek philosopher unrolled a ...

The image shows an unrolling scroll painting of protein structures. The revealed part of the painting illustrates naturally occurring protein structures, while designed structures are being drawn by a ...

IF YOU WANTED to read an ancient Roman scroll, you might reach for a dictionary, and perhaps a magnifying glass. You would probably not think of using a particle accelerator. But that is what is ...