A bad actor is something that can be spotted from a mile away, but it takes a truly wretched thespian for science to name ...

A new explanation for the Wow! signal suggests it was a chance detection of a furious flare crashing into a hydrogen cloud. But some researchers doubt that this idea has truly cracked the case ...

Infosys founder NR Narayana Murthy called for India to reclaim its historical leadership in science and innovation. He argued ...

When I started my research on the Samuel George Morton Cranial Collection, a librarian leaned over my laptop one day to share ...

Since history and science and the history of man are one and the same, there is only one history, said Mayor Beena Philip, ...

A study suggests that the human act of kissing is a remnant of grooming, in which great apes use lip suction to clean the fur ...

Many peoples throughout history used the warmth of the Sun to heal. Others used lamps or light split into different colours, ...

A new art work at Science Gallery London explores the history, engineering, geography and science of human waste in the ...

For the average Earthling, touring space may still be the stuff of science fiction, but in 2000, Popular Science published a ...

The body was first found to be of a male, likely around 30 years of age. At first, archaeologists believed that he had ...

People have long projected stories onto the poignant casts of Pompeii’s victims. A new study uses ancient DNA analysis to ...

On Sunday, the National History Museum will open NHM Commons, its newest wing. The community hub features Gnatalie, a 70-foot ...