The Florida Museum of Natural History at the University of Florida has a massive collection of objects from around the world.

Looking at art here is very different from walking into a museum in busy urban settings like New York, London or Paris.” ...

Stratification theories layer the natural world from the inanimate to the animate to the animal to the human. They used to be ...

In 2020, the U.S. Navy released multiple videos of unidentified aerial phenomena, sparking interest in the public and government. U.S. Navy Unidentified flying object, or UFO for short ... Other ...

Positivists since the 19th-century French philosopher Auguste Comte have considered material progress an inevitable feature ...

Many families returned several times to experience an exotic round-the-world tour that lavishly reconstructed ... They became the objects of “scientific” inquiry in addition to war booty or odd travel ...

An exhibition and several books explore the links between the mysterious deck of cards created in the Italian Renaissance ...

Scientists are piecing together the brain processes that underlie the wide-eyed wanting-to-know we generally think of as ...

A type of air-spring whistle, the striking objects emit a sound described as the scariest in the world, compared to ... that the uncanny mixture of natural and unnatural could be part of what ...

It was a scene ripped from a John le Carré novel. According to firsthand accounts and court documents, a man is told to go to ...

A History of the World in 100 Objects has now ended but the programmes will continue to be available. Listen to the programmes by following the links below, or save them to your computer or mp3 ...

Some of the tallest trees in the world easily beat man-made structures like the Statue of Liberty, the United States Capitol, ...