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The Bayeux Tapestry, an enormous length of embroidered cloth depicting events culminating in the Battle of Hastings in 1066, has long been a mystery, but the once-forgotten artwork might have finally ...

Our job is to create experiences that make people ask new questions, curator Fábio Scarano tells Observer. Courtesy Museum of Tomorrow Let’s start off by talking about how this project came to your ...

Sometimes, the things we can do for our happiness are small and easy: getting a little sun, saying thank you, lending a hand. Other times, they take a little more practice and work. That’s the case ...

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For over a century, scholars debated whether the cones depicted on the heads of ancient Egyptians in tomb reliefs were symbolic or real objects. Excavations at Amarna finally revealed two cones ...

Dr. Shaw and Dr. Hilton teach software engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. For decades, computer science students have been taught a central skill: using computers to solve problems. In ...