Early scientific theories—such as those explaining basic phenomena like gravity, burning, and the movement of molecules in ...

When the quark hypothesis was first proposed more than 10 years ago, there were supposed to be three kinds of quark. The ...

Jesse Gelsinger died after receiving a gene therapy treatment to treat a liver disease. The death sparked an investigation ...

In 1897, Nelson and Lorraine Cornish left Oakland and came to Santa Cruz to live,” writes columnist Ross Eric Gibson. “When ...

The skeleton, known as TBH1, had a rib injury thought to be caused by a sharp projectile and eventually succumbed to ...

“The idea that Ryugu-like objects held on to ice for so long is remarkable,” he added. “It suggests that the building blocks ...

A violent storm swept across southern Germany some 150 million years ago, lifting two immature pterosaurs high above the ground like leaves. The fragile reptiles, just born or newly weaned, swirled ...

It usually takes me several weeks to write these essays, in part because I am slow, and in part I have more to do in ...

We now live in an era where satellite technology allows for early detection of tropical cyclones, but this was not the case in 1938.

The Owensboro Museum of Science and History will host a special symposium, Civil War Guerrillas in Kentucky, at 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 20, at the museum, 122 E. Second St.

Astrophysicist Hakeem Oluseyi hosts Particles of Thought, a new science podcast with leading experts on space, biology and discovery from GBH and the producers of NOVA.

The age-old question of the chicken or the egg is explored through evolutionary biology. Eggs, as membrane-bound containers ...