From an accessible history of design to a facsimile of a super rare architecture magazine, these are the books we loved this year.

Christmas thought of the day by Benjamin Franklin reflects on faith, practice, and moral conduct. The quote reminds readers to follow teachings, not only mark occasions. This explainer covers the ...

With new translations from the long-extinct Hittite language, UChicago Ph.D. student Naomi Harris brought verses from clay ...

Over a century of cinema, some movie genres have particularly stood out depending on the decade, from film noir in the '40s ...

Alexandre Dumas, the famed French author of swashbuckling adventures, such as The Three Musketeers (1844), The Count of Monte Cristo (1846) and The Man in the Iron Mask (1848–50), was an admirer of ...

Worse, the most recent CERN implementation of the FPGA-Based Level-1 Trigger planned for the 2026-2036 decade is a 650 kW system containing an incredibly high number of transistor, 20 trillion in all, ...

If economic and technological transformations have changed our relationship with literature before, they could do so again.

Generations of creators have improved our lives with everything from life-saving tools to toys that stir our imagination.

Over 8,000 years ago, early farming communities in northern Mesopotamia were already thinking mathematically—long before ...

Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

While Europeans eventually discovered the impressive moai statues for which the Rapa Nui are best known, they also stumbled ...

Proto-cuneiform, an early sign-based script, marks a pivotal moment in human history as the precursor to the world's first writing system, cuneiform. Emerging between 3350 and 3000 BC in the city of ...