Francis Bacon was inspired by the inventors of his day ...

Francis Collins explains why many of history’s greatest scientists believed faith and science could work together.

Some biographies are built around revelation. Others proceed by accumulation, assembling a life from fragments that resist ...

Some lives seem to belong less to a nation or a profession than to a disposition. George B. Schaller’s was one of them. He ...

In the new open-access volume Archives of Science: Challenges and Opportunities in the 21st Century, editors Polina Ilieva ...

Conservationists say retrieving mineral-rich rocks will destroy sea life. Environmental studies show conflicting results.

Explore ancient discoveries that rewrite history, from Viking settlements to Göbekli Tepe. Uncover how archaeology challenges ...

No other ancient historian has written a book so insightful on the mechanisms of war as Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War.

A congressional hearing covered the rise of paper mills and the costs of open-access publishing — but there was little ...

For 300 years explorers and naturalists have reported another kind of firefly behavior, seen in the region stretching from ...

A new study suggests a proto–Colorado River filled a large basin before spilling westward to set the Grand Canyon’s modern ...

Humans have always been playful. But for much of our history, play has left little trace. Unlike tools or bones, games rarely ...