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The paper wrote of horse-drawn carriages in New York's Central Park, calling them "hansom cabs." That's wrong, since the carriages have four wheels. Hansom cabs have two. A Times investigation reveals a reader noted this mistake in a letter to the editor in 1985. The paper published the letter but went on to repeat the error for decades.

From the Arab Spring to Occupy Wall Street, "These are folks who are changing history already and will change the future," Time editor Richard Stengel says.

Investigators have revealed more of the evidence that points to a Lebanese bank's involvement in the laundering of money for Hezbollah.

Scientists have discovered a cockroach in South Africa that leaps to get around. It can jump about 20 inches — 50 times its body length. That's a Superroach.

The Voyager 1 spacecraft is 11 billion miles from the sun. And every minute, it gets 636 miles closer to its destination: the frontier of interstellar space. The craft is currently between what NASA calls "the solar wind from the Sun and the interstellar wind from death-explosions of other stars."

After building an optical network, scientists reported a top speed of 186 Gbps. They hope a network that fast will help move vast data to and from the Large Hadron Collider.

He believes in cutting taxes, rolling back regulations, balancing the budget and increasing domestic energy production. Here are a few other things politics watchers will tell you that you might not know about Perry.

The GOP presidential hopefuls are airing ads in nearly all of the early voting states. NPR's Ken Rudin, political ad expert Ken Goldstein and Robert Mann, author of Daisy Petals and Mushroom Clouds: LBJ, Barry Goldwater, and the Ad that Changed American Politics talk about ads past and present.

After weeks of assurances that there wouldn't be a government shutdown in this round of bickering, now there are threats of a government shutdown.

Many Cubans have been dreaming of greater Internet access for years. But for now, it remains one of the world's least connected countries.