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

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

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The Trump administration could embolden Republicans to make sweeping changes to how the affordable care act functions and is ...

Scientists are piecing together the brain processes that underlie the wide-eyed wanting-to-know we generally think of as ...

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 ...

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

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

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