THE CIVIL WAR effectively ended on Sunday, April 9, 1865, when Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia ...

For Medieval peasants, life certainly wasn’t easy. But the stretches of time for rest and leisure were enviable.

At the world’s oldest monastery, new technology is making long-lost manuscripts available to anyone with an Internet connection St. Catherine’s Monastery was built at the foot of Mt. Sinai in the 6th ...

The National Library of Israel is displaying a rare 14th-century manuscript of Maimonides' Mishneh Torah for the first time as part of its permanent exhibition. The illuminated volume, copied in ...

The heroic image of George Washington standing in a boat as it cuts through the icy Delaware River on Christmas Eve in 1776 ...

The Book of Kells—an illuminated manuscript of the Christian gospels, the New Testament books of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and ...

Contrary to popular belief, illuminated manuscripts were not exclusively made in Europe—one of the most impressive is from ...

Across India, royal families and private hoteliers are turning timeworn palaces into decadent boutique stays. IN A WORLD ...

Abstract: This paper presents two aspects of ongoing research at Imec, to develop high-end CMOS APS sensors, optimized for space-born imaging. Both hybrid and monolithic thinned backside illuminated ...

Abstract: This study conducted the TCAD simulation of an advanced back-illuminated silicon photomultipliers (BI-SiPM) device. This BI-SiPM structure with pixels was surrounded by a p+ trench, which ...