The view from 87 stories up includes the Oriental Pearl TV tower, center, the terraces of the Jin Mao Tower, left, and a metroplex growing to fit 23 million people. Justin Guariglia When building ...

Lucy Jones is among the world's most influential seismologists—and perhaps the most recognizable. David Zentz / Aurora Select One of Lucy Jones’ first memories is of an earthquake. It struck ...

Most people think the bottom of the ocean is like a giant bathtub filled with mud—boring, flat and dark. But it contains the largest mountain range on earth, canyons far grander than the Grand ...

The Curious George series has sold 10,000 times the initial print run. H. A. & Margaret Rey Papers, de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection / McCain Library and Archives An illustration for ...

Ellen Raskin designed the first-edition book cover; she later wrote The Westing Game, which won its own Newbery. Ellen Raskin When Léna Roy was 7 years old, her teacher read the first chapter of ...

Chorus for Paul Mooney, 2017, made of antique quilt, assorted textiles, acrylic and spray paint. Most of the quilts used in Biggers’ works were donated or came from thrift stores. Courtesy ...

It was his weekends as a Civil War re-enactor that urged Joseph McGill to campaign for the conservation of slave cabins. Alan Hawes At a bygone plantation in coastal Georgia, Joseph McGill Jr ...

Left, a 1932 self-portrait by Lee Miller. Right, a 1943 portrait of Miller by American photojournalist David Scherman. © Lee Miller Archives, England 2023. All ...

The first frozen margarita machine is in the collections of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. Jiaxi and Zhe The way Mariano Martinez tells it, accounts of the margarita’s ...

José Clemente Orozco, Barricade (Barricada), oil on canvas, 1931. ©The Museum of Modern Art / Licensed by SCALA / Art Resource, NY Alfredo Ramos Martínez’s 1929 Calla Lily Vendor is one of ...

Frankincense and myrrh, aromatic resins from spindly trees, were once highly prized from Rome to India, and deemed essential for a host of uses ranging from religious to cosmetic to medicinal.

Bertolt Meyer pulls off his left forearm and gives it to me. It’s smooth and black, and the hand has a clear silicone cover, like an iPhone case. Beneath the rubbery skin are skeletal robotic ...