Researchers compared hair samples of modern-day residents of Aberdeen with preserved hair from someone estimated to have ...

People living in Scotland 400 hundred years apart have been shown to suffer similar seasonal declines over winter in their ...

Scientists say that the two lost, but extremely important books by Apollonius, the Greek mathematician known to the ancient ...

Archaeologists believe they found a residence of medieval ruler Harold Godwinson, England’s last Anglo-Saxon king. A nearby ...

Found in a roughly 350-year-old manuscript by Dutch biologist Johannes Swammerdam, the scientific illustration shows the brain of a honeybee drone.

Swiss poet and preacher Johann Kaspar Lavater brought back an ancient “science.” Physiognomy, the idea of judging someone’s ...

In the late 19th century, Karl Weierstrass invented a fractal-like function that was decried as nothing less than a ...

Our work helps shape sound policies, inform public opinion, and advance the pursuit of science, engineering, and medicine. Throughout any given year, the National Academies convene hundreds of ...

It hardly needs mentioning, but not all science fiction is created equal ... well out of the range of the 21st century criterion, most Whovians can admit that the modern series that began with ...

Created by Johns Hopkins researchers, EpiScalp could significantly reduce false positives and spare patients from medication side effects, driving restrictions, and other quality-of-life challenges ...

Dating back to the 17th century, the continually controversial Bergen blue laws ban the Sunday sale of non-essential items such as furniture, appliances, clothing and cars, the Record said.