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

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

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, ...

Renz-Hotz brings expertise in artificial intelligence, financial technology, and global markets to the Museum's ...

Population geneticist Sohini Ramachandran uses computational approaches and develops new techniques to explore human genetic variation and diversity.

In an exhibition celebrating the natural history of the United States, a small group of taxidermy birds stands as a reminder ...

Scientists say they have identified an extinct crocodile species from about 45 million years ago in the limestone formation ...

I’ve written more than a few myth-busting articles for Popular Science, and many of the myths are centuries old. But ...

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

How does technical art history relate to the burgeoning field of heritage science? Has technical art history become part of heritage science? Can both disciplines be considered counterparts within the ...

Nearly 2,000 years ago, Pliny the Younger watched Mount Vesuvius erupt across the Bay of Naples, destroying the Roman cities ...