Public bathing has been around for thousands of years. But ancient practices stand in stark contrast to the modern bathhouse ...

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For “Mammoth,” a new show at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, he takes up contentious issues of race and climate change ...

Reality TV star Kim Kardashian and Lewis Hamilton made their first public outing together at the 2026 Super Bowl game.

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The whistle sounds, the cars lurch gently forward, and the outside world starts to fade. Conversation softens. Trees close in ...

Access to clean water is a fundamental resource that often goes unnoticed, especially in parts of the world where it is not ...

Nestled at the crossroads of I-81 and I-77 in Southwest Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains, Wytheville (pronounced “WITH-vil” by locals who’ll gently correct you if you say “WITHE-vil”) feels like ...

If you've used a vending machine lately, you've probably noticed that they're pretty high-tech now, but this invention was ...

In the early 1970s, Dimitrije Milovich and Wayne Stoveken began building boards meant specifically to surf the snow, testing ...