To celebrate the Fourth of July, the Village Voice takes a look at Frederick Douglass's powerful 1852 anti-slavery oration.

Around 252 million years ago, Earth was nearly lifeless, with nearly all life forms wiped out. This event, known as the Permian–Triassic mass extinction, or the Great Dying, was the most catastrophic ...

Since his debut in 1940's Action Comics #23, Luthor has evolved from a somewhat gimmicky Golden Age bad guy into one of the ...

Many modern devices—from cellphones and computers to electric vehicles and wind turbines—rely on strong magnets made from ...

"This might be the greatest one-day lineup in the history of rock," says Billy Corgan of the event celebrating the band and ...

Priscilla Diane Chapman Frisch, a University of Chicago Research Professor in Astronomy and Astrophysics and a world-leading ...

An ancient climate tipping point is revealed in new fossils dating back to Earth’s most severe extinction event, called the ...

The ancient history of Earth has always been hard to read. Most of the planet’s earliest crust has been lost, buried, or melted by geologic processes over billions of years.

People have lived in Big Sky Country for a little more than 10,000 years. But living things creeped and crawled and swam ...

A mass extinction event wiped out around 90% of life. What followed has long puzzled scientists: The planet became lethally ...

The world's population is currently over eight billion, so it's no surprise that human perspectives on life and death would ...

Carolyn Montgomery, 95, has admired Little Compton's stone walls all of her life, and she wants to ensure future generations ...