The Smithsonian’s portraits of women scientists give us a glimpse into the lives that helped shape modern discovery. Each ...

As one of Dr. Jane Goodall's final acts, she recorded an interview on the Netflix show "Famous Last Words" to reveal her ...

Mr Mokyr is an economist and a historian. He is also an inbetweener; not fully happy in either camp. He writes better than ...

The announcement Monday that three laureates will share the Nobel memorial prize in economics for explaining ...

Answer: Let’s look at one example. William Lawrence Bragg (1890–1971) was an Australian-born British scientist who used ...

“In the best-case scenario, when you adopt these new techniques, even on the same old data, it’s kind of like putting on glasses for the first time, and you can see the leaves on the trees,” said Kyle ...

Easter Island is famous for its giant monumental statues, called moai, built some 800 years ago and typically mounted on ...

Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for research on the strange behavior of subatomic particles called ...

Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton's crew famously survived after the Endurance became stuck in ice in 1915. A researcher ...

A member of the Nobel committee likened the discovery to Hermione Granger’s seemingly bottomless enchanted handbag in the ...

Primatologist and global icon Jane Goodall died last week at 91. Her legacy lives on in the next generation of ...

This 2020 astronaut photo shows the unusual cetacean-like shape of Belize's Lighthouse Reef. It's home to the famous Great ...