The woman who helped put astronauts on the moon was a software engineer when the field was not prestigious or lucrative.

The myth of Nicolas and Pernelle Flamel, medieval Parisians said to have made gold with a philosophers' stone, sparked a centuries-long obsession. Here's the real story.

From October 27 to November 1, the 23rd National Week of Science and Technology (SNCT) will take place at the Rio de Janeiro ...

Molecular clocks push the dawn of animal life back to a frozen world 800 million years ago.

New study suggests that settlement of the Pacific occurred in a migration process with what the authors call a series of ...

Artifacts from 9,000 feet up are rewriting what we thought we knew about the earliest inhabitants of North America.

Natural disasters in history that sound like science fiction Sometime in the middle of the night in early September 1859, ...

The scientist led the software engineering team at MIT during the Apollo program and was awarded the Presidential Medal of ...

Alchemists once chased gold and immortality. Philadelphia's newest permanent exhibit shows how that obsession became modern ...

Detected by the MeerKAT array, this “fast radio burst” comes from 3 billion years after the Big Bang, and could help map the ...

Florence Buchanan helped transform the study of the nervous system, yet no authenticated portrait of her was known until now.

Historically, there have been at least two controversial precedents involving a Nobel Prize in science and a key research ...