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

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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 ...

Goodall, who died Oct. 1, became one of the most famous scientists of the 20th century for her work observing chimpanzees in the wild in East Africa. Originally broadcast in 1993 and 1999.

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

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From feathered dinosaurs to frozen mammoths, fossils keep upending science with discoveries that rewrite the history of life. National Fossil Day is not just about admiring dinosaur skeletons or ...

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 ...