For most of modern history, economic growth has been tightly coupled with the use of fossil fuels. Cities now house more than ...

Books are among life’s great joys. Fortunately, if you’re looking for a particular way to honor your love of books, there’s an informal holiday designed to help you do just that. This would be World ...

Proof-of-concept exploit code has been published for a critical remote code execution flaw in protobuf.js, a widely used JavaScript implementation of Google's Protocol Buffers. The tool is highly ...

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Carrie Banks wears a National Library Tour t-shirt for the ALA President’s Program.#alamw19 Credit: Courtesy ALA Workers at the American Library Association announced on March 2 that they are forming ...

The maps show Harrisburg laid out along a bend in the river in shades of gray. A computer created them about 50 years ago using boxes of cards punched by Tony Kadysewski and his assistants at Penn ...

The State Department has continued to update its travel advisories as the conflict with Iran and adversarial relationships with other nations continue to play out across the world. Americans traveling ...

TELL THE STORY OF NORTH AMERICA. AT THE LEVENTHAL MAP CENTER. INSIDE THE BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY. THAT STORY STRETCHES BACK CENTURIES. MAPS AREN’T JUST STATIC DEPICTIONS OF THE WAY THE WORLD IS, BUT ...

PCWorld highlights the San Francisco Public Library’s special Star Trek-themed library card celebrating the franchise’s 60th anniversary and the city’s role as Starfleet headquarters. California ...

Paige Blumer always loved horses. She started taking riding lessons when she was 5, after launching a campaign to convince her parents to sign her up. Blumer soon was participating in equestrian ...

The Virginia mare earned the title just weeks before her 38th birthday GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS A 37-year-old Virginia mare named Fancy broke the Guinness World Records' record for the oldest living ...