Timekeeping has always been one of humankind’s greatest fascinations. From observing the sun’s shadow to engineering atomic precision, the evolution of timekeeping devices spans centuries of ...

BC: Romans under Lucius Aemilius Paullus defeat and capture Macedonian King Perseus, ending the Third Macedonian War. 1377: Richard II ...

In the early 1600s, Dutch spectacle maker Jan Lippershey discovered that combining lenses could magnify distant objects.

Pope Leo XIV has declared that the discoveries made since the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope mean it is an ...

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