Jan. 31 marks the day Ham, a chimpanzee, was launched into sub-orbital space in a Mercury capsule aboard a Redstone rocket to become the first great ape in space.

The Las Vegas Raiders have the No. 1 overall pick on the draft. They are expected to select Indiana’s Fernando Mendoza with the pick But they could always trade the pick. It is pretty rare for those ...

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The Oregonian/OregonLive spoke with roughly 100 workers in Nike’s second-largest production hub. None said they made anywhere ...

Noisy Creek, a startup publisher on a mission to restore alternative weeklies, took over operations at the Reader last fall, with plans to install a profit/nonprofit formula.

Knoxville will mark Black History Month with art exhibitions, movie screenings and conversations with authors and scholars.

Washington Wizards and Capital City Go-Go celebrate Black History Month with activations honoring Black pioneers in ...

Doctors in Chicago saved the life of a young Missouri man with a rare infection that had liquefied his lungs, hooking him up to what they have called a total artificial lung. The patient, whose name ...

Material objects communicate in a way that’s fundamentally different from everything else,” the artist says. “They tell you ...

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Experiments with identical replicas of Thomas Edison's original light bulbs shows the inventor may have accidentally created ...