A finger-sized clay cylinder from a tomb in northern Syria appears to be the oldest example of writing using an alphabet ...

Voters supported abortion rights measures while electing antiabortion candidates in the 2024 election. The split reflects a ...

Called Olbers’ paradox, the seemingly simple mystery of the sky’s darkness is something that stumped astronomers for ...

Female chimps who migrate to new social groups bring skills and technology with them, helping to drive development of ...

Mathematicians explore ideas by proposing conjectures and proving them with theorems. For centuries, they built these proofs line by careful line, and most math researchers still work like that today.

President-elect Donald Trump’s return to the White House could embolden Republicans who want to weaken or repeal the Affordable Care Act, but implementing such sweeping changes would still require ...

The 3.2-million-year-old human ancestor known as Lucy sparked a revolution in scientists’ understanding of the origins of ...

This Black physicist’s work on the Manhattan Project inspired a County in Florida two generations after her death ...

Every Atlantic hurricane that formed this year had higher wind speeds because of climate change. Two likely would have ...

Despite investigative genetic genealogy revolutionizing cold case investigations, it has been underused to free the wrongly ...

Oil rigs around the world are habitats for marine species. When they stop producing oil, should they be removed or allowed to ...

Years ago Domokos developed a mathematical tool for describing tessellations based on their average properties rather than ...