Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier — the very types of ...

Climate change has become “that” topic – like evolution of species, plate tectonics, or AI – where the public has heard so ...

Morgan studied the genetic characteristics of fruit flies, which became the basis for the science of genetics.

Messages transmitted between two computers located about 380 miles apart would form the basis of what would become the ...

In Johnson Square, the moss won't grow. Why? To find the answers, we have to go back almost 300 years. It was laid out in ...

A team of researchers at Iowa State recently planted a two-year-old research orchard using a modified super spindle ...

This spooky season, we’re stepping inside Chicago’s International Museum of Surgical Science, where medicine meets mystery in the city’s Gold Coast. The museum blends science, history, and spookiness, ...

These rare samples, uncovered on the moon by China’s Chang’e 6 mission, might help to reveal secrets of how the solar system ...

In an excerpt from his new book Dinner with King Tut, Sam Kean explores a weird and wild '90s experiment to replicate ancient ...

Skulls displayed in public 2,000 years ago were intended as a warning to enemies and a celebration of comrades, a new paper ...

New research shows that the rise of Sumer was deeply tied to the tidal and sedimentary dynamics of ancient Mesopotamia. Early ...

Surekha Davies is a British historian of science and the author of Humans: A Monstrous History (University of California ...