After earning a medical degree in 1864, Rebecca Lee Crumpler died in obscurity and was buried without a headstone ...

Hansen’s disease, also called leprosy, is treatable today – and that’s partly thanks to a curious tree and the work of a ...

An occasional series where Mongabay’s founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives, and story summaries.

Cambridge University researchers found a manuscript with rare Arthurian tales bound into a ledger more than 400 years old and ...

National Geographic's visual storytelling, and  Scientifically designed interactive methodologies. "This program is the ...

Fleming made major scientific discoveries and belonged to the Harvard Computers, a team of women who processed astronomical ...

Emma Willard, formerly Troy Female Seminary, has educated thousands of young women since 1821. Many of them went on to become successful in many fields. Since Amos Eaton was close to Emma and ...

Ethelred van Wessex defeats the Danish invasion army at the Battle of Marton. 1349: Townspeople of Fulda, Germany, massacre ...

Scientists traditionally prefer to focus on their research and shy away from activism. But these are not normal times, many said. Back in San Francisco, Paul English, a retired environmental ...

Scientists trying to bring back the woolly mammoth have created a woolly mouse. Colossal Biosciences unveiled plans in 2021 to revive the woolly mammoth - and later the dodo bird - attracting ...

Harvard scientist Dr. Willie Soon introduces a bold hypothesis that a mathematical formula could prove the existence of God. Drawing upon the fine-tuning argument, he suggests that the universe's ...

The yet-to-be peer-reviewed findings may help find new treatments for cancer and therapies to boost lifespan in humans, scientists say. Previous research has shown that the Greenland shark ...