While Indian languages have fascinated Western scholars for centuries, World War Two marked a tuning point, when American Universities started launching large programs for the study of Hindi, Sanskrit ...

Russia says it reserves the right to resume striking Ukrainian energy targets if Kyiv flouts moratorium Russia reserves the right to withdraw from a U.S.-brokered moratorium on Moscow and Kyiv ...

SFPD drone footage of the March 8 police shooting of Dmitri Hochstatter. Sign up below to get Mission Local’s free newsletter, a daily digest of news you won’t find elsewhere. An Outer Sunset man who ...

In 1869, chemist Dmitri Mendeleev introduced his concept of a periodic table of elements at a meeting of the Russian Chemical Society in St. Petersburg. In 1912, Oreo cookies were first introduced ...

At the middle of the 19th century, 63 chemical elements were known to science. Before Mendeleev’s discovery, attempts at arranging them in some logical way were made by Johann Doebereiner (1829 ...