He built his family’s oil-refining operation into one of the largest companies in the country, and then used his wealth to ...

Held as a part of the Villanova Philosophy Department’s Speaker’s Series, Villanova Ph.D. alumnus Michael Shaw (‘06) returned ...

While testing the "infinite monkey theorem," mathematicians found that the odds of a chimpanzee typing even a short phrase ...

This set the stage for the wartime work of Enrico Fermi ... who corrected Aristotle's false claim by showing that two objects with different masses fall at exactly the same rate. Some claim Galileo's ...

The famous conqueror’s burial location remains a mystery, but new research claims that material found in one of the iconic ...

I wish someone had shared these nuggets with me when I was out of school and hustling. As I mature in my career, I’ve noticed ...

Thanks to Joseph Goebbels, the film director Georg Wilhelm Pabst luxuriated in a massive budget for the dramatised documentary he shot in occupied Prague during the autumn of 1942. Commissioned to ...

At a time when the passage of time was dictated by the movement of the sun and the seasons, the introduction of “clock time” ...

A gift from Cameroon’s President Ahidjo, the elephant was named Jumbo. Jumbo didn’t spend his days frolicking around ...

As we remember our war dead, there is no better time to evaluate the importance of bravery, to cherish it and to try to ...

A trip to Greece is a bucket list experience in and of itself. Whether it’s the lure of retracing the footsteps of ...

Textbooks teach students the evolution of modern psychology in the seventeenth century starting from Sigismund Schlomo Freud ...