Mysterious signs engraved on objects reveal that a form of proto-writing may have been used in Europe 40,000 years ago, tens of thousands of years before the emergence of a full writing system ...

A century after the first Michelin star was bestowed, the award continues to shape the world of dining, recognising everything from elegant French restaurants to Singaporean street-food stalls — and ...

We tend to think of the law as a public asset—centuries of statutes, common law, and legal precedents that shape how society governs itself. So why is the law itself so hard and so expensive to access ...

Today, it’s easy to take the television for granted as one of many options for entertainment available to us, especially during the age of the internet and the ongoing popularity of social media. But ...

Researchers at Stony Brook University say they have developed a low-cost way to retrofit hundreds of thousands of aging septic systems across Long Island to drastically improve drinking water.

When people name the most important inventions in history, light bulbs are usually on the list. They were much safer than earlier light sources, and they made more activities, for both work and play, ...

Sherry Preston: Are you curious about the Dewey Decimal system? The Dewey Decimal system was designed to organize library books by putting a number on the book spine. Sherry Preston is the public ...

It is the 174th birthday of Melvil Dewey, the man who created the Dewey Decimal System, and was responsible more than any other person for the creation and promotion of the field of Library Science in ...

Editor’s note: “Behind the News” is the product of Sun staff assisted by the Sun’s AI lab, which includes a variety of tools such as Anthropic’s Claude, Perplexity AI, Google Gemini and ChatGPT. Dewey ...

If you’ve ever wandered through a library and wondered why history is over here, while cooking lives comfortably over there, you have Melvil Dewey to thank. He’s the 19th-century librarian who looked ...