Though atomic nuclei are often depicted as static clusters of protons and neutrons (nucleons), the particles are actually ...

Thomas Jefferson loved new technology and modding his surroundings to his lifestyle. From food to comfort to efficiency, he was always looking for ways to improve his living space with inventions and ...

In this case, the legacy of Thomas Jefferson. An article written by the editorial board of the university’s student newspaper says that Thomas Jefferson’s image and name should be removed from ...

Thomas Jefferson was many things – politician and diplomat, naturalist and scientist. Revered as America's third president, he was also the main author of the Declaration of Independence.

Thomas Jefferson is kind of like a part of my human history. He doesn't define it," said Rev. Banks. "I've always seen myself as a descendant of slaves that Thomas Jefferson owned.

Historians painting Thomas Jefferson as a "kinder, gentler" slaveholder have been heaping criticism on Henry Wiencek, who asserts in a new book that the founding father was a calculating and cruel ...

Thomas Jefferson impersonator Steve Edenbo is shown here, in character and in costume. "If someone tries to talk about a modern issue, I try to respond with an historical analogue," Edenbo told ...

Jefferson was complicated, to say the least. Although a slave owner, he did more than almost any other person in his generation to fight against the expansion and continuation of slavery in ...

So Jefferson tried rice from Timor, by way of the disgraced Captain William Bligh (who brought it back from his infamously mutinous voyage on the Bounty). Still unsuccessful, Jefferson tried African ...

The giant ground sloth was given its scientific name Megalonyx jeffersonii by the US’s third president and founding father ...