The oceans and coastlines of the world are scattered with thousands of shipwrecks that span thousands of years of history. By some estimates, less than 1 percent of all shipwrecks have been located, ...

Researchers found that students perform better in science where they read stories about how famous scientists struggled rather than when they read stories about what those scientists achieved. So if I ...

Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson will blend science and cinema in a discussion titled “Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson: An Astrophysicist Goes to the Movies” Friday, June 10 at the Schuster Center courtesy of Dayton ...

On November 24, 1974—50 years ago this November—a pair of paleoanthropologists made the discovery of a lifetime: a set of 47 bones, hidden in the dusty, rocky hills of a fossil site in Hadar, Ethiopia ...

RIVERSIDE >> At one time, it was every geek’s worst nightmare: Come back from college, or even summer camp, and Mom has thrown or given away a beloved collection of dog-eared science fiction and ...

“The Last Jedi” is set in large part in a green, mountainous landscape inhabited by Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) — an old, grizzled dude with flowing robes and mysterious powers. The plot involves ...

The accomplished astronomer was, one historian said, “the Einstein of his time.” But before he surveyed the sky, he was a prolific musician. By Hugh Morris Within the four-square opening of William ...

SINCE the publication of Prof. Hessen's challenging discussion on the social background of Newtonian mechanics at the International Congress of 1931, there have been welcome indications of a new ...

One of the biggest elements behind the vast universe of No Man’s Sky is the thrill of exploration; the idea of discovering hundreds of planets for the first time and, then, working to catalogue ...

Readers of Nature, one of the world’s most important scientific journals, might have been struck recently by an audacious claim appearing on its website about a possible stem cell treatment for heart ...