A modern materials study suggests that Thomas Edison’s early light bulb experiments may have unknowingly produced graphene decades before the material was formally theorized or isolated. Thomas Edison ...

Scientists analyzed more than 100 million image cutouts from the Hubble Space Telescope archives, finding hundreds of ...

The findings represent the oldest complete set of genetic information from this bacterial group and shed light on its ...

Chemist Omar Yaghi invented materials called MOFs, a few grams of which have the surface area of a football field. He explains why he thinks these super-sponges will define the next century ...

Unmissable opportunities for SCUBA diving enthusiasts now enrich guests' luxury explorations in one of the last paradises on ...

Deep inside a limestone cave on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, a single human handprint has pushed the story of art back ...

The finding, along with the discovery of a 500,000-year-old hammer made of bone, indicates that our human ancestors were ...

I swear by Apollo the physician, by Asclepius, Hygieia, and Panacea, by all the gods and all the goddesses, taking them as witnesses, that I will faithfully fulfill, according to my ability and ...

NASA and The Hubble Space Telescope has noticed the disappearance of the massive star N6946‑BH1 after it flared to a million ...

There's something uniquely frustrating about the world of scientific discovery. We celebrate the names we know, the heroes ...

The broader value of KNM-ER 64061 is that it adds weight to Turkana as the home of human origins when there is focus on building a science museum in there. A presidential task force established in ...

His containment strategy helped wipe out the disease in the 1970s, one of the world’s greatest public health triumphs. He ...