The 1920s were a decade of explosive change, and at the heart of this cultural revolution were the flappers. Emerging from the shadow of World War I and fueled by the victory of the women’s suffrage ...

Historical observations from an observatory in Germany have now independently verified evidence for brief, mysterious flashes of light in the night sky, first picked up by an American astronomical ...

Read my expert take on a survivor-grade 1950s pickup. Green exterior, brown interior, family-owned for decades, and barely driven since Truman was in the White House. Is it worth it? A rare ...

Back in the 1950s, teenagers used to dance all the time. Imagine that! They weren’t on their cell phones, walking the sidewalks like zombies. They weren’t playing video games, wearing Britney Spears ...

While the 1950s sparked a downturn in general “independent adventure” for kids, according to research professor Peter Gray, largely because of the introduction of television, adult-led sports, and the ...

Compared with parenting styles today, kids raised in the 1950s were taught very different life lessons and expected to cultivate independence in ways that were often harsher. Parents back then ...

While it was poised to usher in a new era of passenger train travel, the Aerotrain was unfortunately a disappointment — not only for the railroad companies, but for riders as well. Passengers ...

Back when hashtags were called pound signs, and before anyone was “doin’ it for the ’gram” (do they even say that anymore?), everyday life was already being captured in color. That may come as a ...

“Josh has got so much energy and is such a lover of New York, and I was always trying to find things that I could tell him that were a little different. But he was ahead of me,” says Fisk. Working ...

Researchers engineered a strained germanium layer on silicon that allows charge to move faster than in any silicon-compatible material to date. This record mobility could lead to chips that run cooler ...

MSU Libraries' has access to nearly 300 reels of WKAR-TV films from the 1950s and 1960s available to digitize. If you tuned into WKAR-TV in the 1950s, you might have caught programs explaining how to ...