As a teenager, Gabriela Farfan became fascinated by the shapes and colors of minerals. Now, as curator of gems and minerals at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, she studies what they ...
IntroductionIn October 2026, the simultaneous release of hundreds of mathematical achievements by OpenAI on GitHub, along ...
Scientists have cracked a 178-year-old mystery surrounding a train delayed by a solar storm, revealing that the famous incident happened in 1848 rather than 1841. The discovery rewrites the early ...
There are few worse railway stations than Euston, but this unlovely terminus was once a rival New York’s Grand Central ...
T HE YEARS since the second world war have been good to American science. The country’s researchers sent man to the moon, ...
This is an image created by AI.Can humans understand the world and create a better society?Since ancient Greece, Western ...
A Nature investigation identified more than 30 requests since 2024 to US universities in a campaign questioning climate ...
A partial skull acquired by London’s Natural History Museum in 1924 has been identified as Europe’s first known megaraptoran ...
The Academy of Natural Sciences, located in Philadelphia, closed last month just shy of its 200th birthday. It was founded in ...
Science ignored the okapi for centuries while Indigenous communities in the Congo knew it well, and even after a skull ...
When the first Polynesian settlers arrived in Aotearoa New Zealand some 750 years ago, they found an environment very ...