A seven-million-year-old fossil may mark the moment our ancestors first stood up and walked.

I fear that skepticism and scorn have been elevated to the upper echelons of power, where fateful decisions are being made, writes Heidi Stevens.

In 1881 Charles Darwin wrote: "Without the work of this humble creature, who knows nothing of the benefits he confers upon mankind, agriculture, as we know it, would be very difficult, if ...

The annexed engravings are views of a machine for plastering the walls of houses, invented by Isaac Hussey, of Harveysburg, ...

WorldCon, the annual volunteer-run science fiction and fantasy writing convention, sweeps through a different city every year ...

Scientists in Paris discovered two new substances with incredible radioactivity. It earned them the Nobel Prize in Physics but would ultimately kill one of them.

Many advances in technology spring from the mind of a single genius, but others, like nuclear power, are the product of many minds over generations.

Some of the citations that underpin the science in the White House’s sweeping “MAHA Report” appear to have been generated using artificial intelligence, resulting in numerous garbled scientific ...

The simple question of who invented the digital computer has many possible answers. Several strands of development – both theoretical and practical – converged around 1950, and no single inventor can ...

Not all inventions are planned. This video tells the story of how a NASA engineer unintentionally created one of the most iconic summer toys ever. Serious science produced pure fun. Accidents ...

16:21, Wed, Dec 10, 2025 Updated: 16:22, Wed, Dec 10, 2025 Researchers in the United States have unveiled a wireless device that can "control the brain" using light and bypass the body's normal ...

Each and every day, there are brilliant minds working behind the scenes to develop inventions and technology that make our lives better, easier, or just plain more fun. Depending on your age, there’s ...