"Spring has sprung"... all year round, for many centuries! Here's how important that one simple device has become for ...

Designed by Sir Christopher Wren and Robert Hooke, this stone column reaches a height of 202 feet, exactly 202 feet from the ...

Three decades after the release of Matthew Sweet's 100% Fun (released 3/14/95), his fifth solo album not only reaffirms the ...

Over the course of a stop–start 17-year-long association, the group from Chapel Hill, North Carolina (Folds on piano and ...

With more than 500 bridges crisscrossing the city of Philadelphia, they are an integral part of daily life. In a city defined by its rivers, bridges make possible the connections between people.

350 years old, Robert Hooke's Micrographia is a hidden treasure in Kew's library — one you may not expect to find there. Among the library’s botanical riches, there are a few items which are not ...

Robert Hooke FRS (; 18 July 1635 – 3 March 1703) was an English polymath active as a scientist, natural philosopher and architect, who is credited to be one of two scientists to discover ...

Robert John, a beloved singer, died on February 24, 2025, at the age of 79. In a conversation with Rolling Stone, his son talked about how John did not completely heal from a stroke that he had ...

Robert John, the crooner behind “Sad Eyes” who scored his first hit when he was just 12, has died aged 79. John’s son, Michael Pedrick, confirmed the news of his death to Rolling Stone.

John earned a Grammy nomination for "Sad Eyes" Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Robert John, the singer-songwriter behind the chart-topping hit "Sad Eyes," has died. He was 79. John's son Michael ...

Robert John, an itinerant singer-songwriter who was working in construction before scoring a Number One hit with 1979’s “Sad Eyes,” died Monday. He was 79. Michael Pedrick, John’s son, con ...