The following is an excerpt from First Contact: The Story of Our Obsession with Aliens, by Becky Ferreira. When you purchase products through the Bookshop.org link on this page, Science Friday earns a ...

Considered the "people's literature" in the 17th century, broadside ballads were sold for a penny or halfpenny, their pairing of a comic or satiric song alongside a woodblock illustration making them ...

NORWELL − Cornet Robert Stetson certainly sounds like a dashing figure, part of the Great Pilgrim Migration, an enterprising founder of the town of Norwell who deserves to be remembered. And so he was ...

Although cocaine use became widespread in the 19th century once it was synthesized into cocaine hydrochloride salts, Europeans knew of the coca plant’s stimulating effects since the early 15th century ...