Shakespeare maintained a wide-ranging interest in different forms of “natural philosophy,” which combined what we now call ...

"Critical minerals" have limited supplies and no substitutes. Scientists make key discovery that could solve major issue with ...

Japanese researchers turned to “experimental archaeology” to study how ancient humans navigated powerful ocean currents and ...

"Smart regulation." Scientists make stunning breakthrough that could solve dangerous issue with modern batteries: 'Offering a ...

In 2010, scientists found the first evidence of another hominin subspecies, known as the Danisovans. Now, they’ve identified ...

Scientists at Raman Research Institute (RRI) in Bengaluru, an autonomous institute under the Centre's Department of Science ...

Researchers recreated a 30,000-year-old ocean journey from Taiwan to Japan using canoes and simulations to test early human ...

A change to a single gene in the bacterium Yersinia pestis has enabled one of the world’s most notorious pathogens to survive for centuries.

Heisenberg said that modern science can lead to good or to evil. But sometimes defining the “good” is not easy. For example, is it morally justified to build a weapon to kill people, ...

A kind of helicopter design first envisioned by the Renaissance -era Italian polymath Leonardo Da Vinci could help develop quieter and stealthier modern drones, according to a new study. At such a ...

New research says that the search for extraterrestrial life may be too narrow, as life could thrive in conditions far different from Earth's.

When the animal was sculpted for London’s Crystal Palace Park in the 1850s (above), the artist took cues from modern crocodiles. Scientists now know the dinosaur was bipedal (below).