Twelve-thousand years ago, people in a coastal village in the Levant used stone weights on their spindles to spin thread faster and more evenly—and, some archeologists are arguing, in the process they ...

The hard-boiled detectives came to their conclusion based on a single-celled organism that long predated our fine-feathered ...

The cotton gin, the steam engine, and even the power loom burst onto the scene ... In retrospect, the Industrial Revolution ...