From "I think, therefore I am" to "The invisible hand," these revolutionary thinkers transformed human understanding forever.

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine alumnus and former faculty member Hamilton O. Smith, M.D., whose 1978 Nobel Prize-winning discovery of restriction enzymes revolutionized genetic ...

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More than a thousand years ago, astronomers from the Maya civilization developed one of the most sophisticated time-keeping ...

It was a dream to be asked by the Smithsonian to paint a portrait of disability icon Temple Grandin. Here's what I hope you see in this painting.

Turns out, ancient body art is a lot more common than we once thought—and it's providing historians with new ways of understanding our ancestors. Archaeologist Aaron Deter-Wolf, pictured in his office ...

Few city rats have left their mark on the public consciousness — and the urban landscape — like the one responsible for the famed "Chicago rat hole."But the Windy City's "rat hole" may not be what it ...

Damian, one of my eighth-graders, left me a note on our digital bulletin board: “Science is my favorite class every year!” His classmate Amelia replied with “Me 2!!!” Damian is sure he’s headed for a ...

An archaeologist is piecing together what the V-shaped stone structures—some stretching 500 feet long—were used for. Two chacu hunting traps are seen from the air. The V-shaped hunting traps were used ...

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To mimic the Creator and create life ex nihilo – almost from nothing – has been the ambition of some men, none more so than Philip Theophrastus Bombast von Hohenheim (1493 - 1541), a 16th-century ...

Ice comes in many phases (about twenty, to be exact), and scientists from the Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS) just discovered a new one called “Ice XXI.” To study this new ...