From “experimental archaeology” to the mysterious appeal of exploration, the wide-ranging subjects detailed in these titles captivated Smithsonian magazine’s science contributors this year Joe Spring, ...

When the United States faced the looming threat of World War II in the 1930s, it bet big on science — and won. The nation invested billions of dollars in research at universities and in industry. That ...

The Python Software Foundation (PSF) has withdrawn its $1.5 million grant proposal to the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) due to funding terms forcing a compromise on its commitment to ...

CORRECTION: A transcription error misidentified author Dr. Peter Hotez in William Brangham's introduction. The transcript has been updated. We regret the error. From ...

Dr. Frank is a professor of astrophysics at the University of Rochester. A few years ago, on a flight, I was seated next to a man in his mid-20s. He looked at the astrobiology textbook I was reading ...

His snake eyes were bigger than his stomach. Florida might have a new ally in the ongoing fight against the invasive Burmese python scourge — chilly weather. Researchers who track the elusive and ...

Python maintains its runaway top ranking in the Tiobe index of programming language popularity, while older languages continue to rise. Perl surprises. Python, the highest-ranking language ever in the ...

July 31 (Reuters) - Anaconda, a provider of open-source Python software for data science and AI, has raised more than $150 million in a Series C funding round, valuing the startup at about $1.5 ...

The question of whether science and religion are at odds or generally compatible has long been a topic of interest to philosophers, theologians and scientists, among others. In the Religious Landscape ...

Scientists statistically analyzed large amounts of data collected by Burmese python contractors, revealing critical insights about how to most efficiently remove the reptiles. In a groundbreaking ...