Seventy-five years ago on Tuesday, November 20, 1945, the trials in Nuremberg, Germany began. It had been six months since the surrender of the Nazis and the end of World War II. More than 12 million Jews and non-Jews had been massacred by a man who was driven by antisemitism and the belief in Aryan (German) superiority. Key Nazi officials who were accused of war crimes, involvement in the Holocaust, and other injustices against humanity, were tried for over a year. They ultimately received death or imprisonment sentences or were acquitted. Let’s take a closer look at the trials and how it…

When we think of the Maya civilization, tall stone pyramids come to mind. But these ancient people were quite the engineers! Recently, scientists made a remarkable discovery in the city of Tikal in modern-day Guatemala. Here, they found evidence of an elaborate water filtering system within one of the city’s largest water reservoirs. They believe the filtering system may have been used to remove toxic metals like mercury, poisonous algae, and bacteria. Impressively, these materials are still used in modern-day water filtration, which just goes to show how technologically advanced the Maya…

Have you wondered how dogs became man's best friend? Or, why there so many dog breeds? On October 30, a study published in the online journal Science revealed more information about the history between dogs and humans, dating back to thousands of years. From previous studies, it was known that sometime between 15,000 to 40,000 years ago, humans first encountered a friendly gray wolf, and that forever changed the relationship. The dogs of today are descendants of and were domesticated from gray wolves. One study suggested that dogs may have been domesticated twice since their origin, but…