Today, we celebrate the towering life and legacy of Benjamin Franklin—printer and philosopher, inventor and diplomat, public ...

One of Israel’s leading archaeologists, he found evidence that the writing of the Old Testament likely began much earlier ...

A professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, he was a key contributor to a landmark paper that laid out how the ...

One hundred and fifty years ago this week, the St Helens Newspaper published an article hailing a new invention, writes Stephen Wainwright.

JOHN WALKER’S claim to fame as the man who invented the match has all but been extinguished over the passing of the centuries, but this ...

From beehive-shaped ice pits in Iran to 17th-century European kitchens, ice cream’s evolution reveals how science, sugar, and survival shaped one of the world’s most beloved foods. WE ALL SCREAM FOR ...

Trudy Ring is The Advocate's senior politics editor and copy chief. She has been a reporter and editor for daily newspapers and LGBTQ+ weeklies/monthlies, trade magazines, and reference books. She is ...