A version of this essay first appeared in The Swell, Salon's culture newsletter. Sign up for early access to articles like this, for more culture that's made to last. Two years ago, a viral trend tore ...

A newly discovered construction site in Pompeii proves out a theory of why Roman concrete has stood the test of time. The hot-mixing process of concrete creation found in the ancient city was the ...

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NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has released detailed plans for a major survey that will reveal our home galaxy, the Milky Way, in unprecedented detail. In one month of observations ...

Jon Contino, the Wantagh- and Seaford-raised designer, greeted with dismay the news this week that Secretary of State Marco Rubio had directed the Department of State to use the Times New Roman ...

The Roman invasion of Britain in 43 AD brought with it dramatic social upheaval that fundamentally altered the health landscape of the island's inhabitants. While the Romans claimed to deliver ...

The State Department has reversed a Biden-era font change that aimed to make its paperwork more accessible to readers with disabilities. Secretary of State Marco Rubio directed diplomats around the ...

The U.S. State Department changed its official font from the reader-friendly Calibri back to Times New Roman. Michel Martin speaks with an accessibility design expert about why fonts matter. This is a ...

The health of populations in Britain declined under Roman occupation, particularly in more urban areas. There is a widely held belief that the Romans brought civilisation and its many benefits to ...

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WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Marco Rubio has ordered diplomatic correspondence to stop using the Calibri font and return to the more traditional Times New Roman effective Wednesday, reversing a ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio ordered the State Department to revert to using Times New Roman instead of Calibri as the typeface for government communications on Tuesday. The move, outlined in an ...