In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, no American family played a bigger role in American agriculture than ...

Earth’s climate is wildly out of balance, and there is no precedent in recorded history for what is happening now on our ...

While other countries around the world employed Mendelian genetics to increase agricultural yields, Lysenko touted a debunked ...

The Antikythera computer captured the ancient Greek passion for mathematics, and especially geometry, and science.

Dr. Bishop shared a Nobel Prize with Harold Varmus for his work on cancer-causing genes called oncogenes. He later served as ...

A new three-volume study explores how quantum physics, gravitation and cosmology may be understood within a unified ...

The past 11 years were the 11 hottest on record amid an increasing onslaught of climate-driven disasters, the World ...

Science Textbook Controversies “In 1969 the California Board of Education issued new guidelines for the biology curriculum of ...

The history of Earth is written on the great tablets of tectonic plates. The motions of plates shaped land masses, formed ...

Paintings from ancient Egypt show the harvesting of grapes and the making of wine. Mesopotamian murals illustrate elites rai ...

According to the prevailing English accounts, King Harold made a momentous, 200-mile march over land to the Battle of ...

It’s a bit like reading a very dense book – it’s small in size, but it’s full of information.” Paleoclimatologists like ...