In the recent flurry of executive orders from President Donald Trump, one warned of “a distorted narrative” about race ...

I am, of course, talking about the famous Scopes (Monkey) trial that is familiar to many Americans today. But it seems that ...

While it may look like a blazing red ruby, the 2.33-carat Winston Red Diamond is just that—a diamond. One of the rarest diamonds in the world, the Winston Red Diamond is on display at the Smithsonian ...

The twentieth century swept away this facile illusion. Highly accurate experiments showed that Newton’s theory is mistaken in a very precise sense. The planet Mercury, for example, does not move ...

The 20th century will go down in history — it pretty much already has — as the century of the physicist. Physicists’ revolutionizing of the scientific world view with relativity and quantum ...

A new study shows that the oceans were less cold in the early 20th century (1900--1930) than previously thought. During this period the ocean appears too cold due to the way some measurements were ...

The MIT Press is rescuing early 20th-century science fiction from obscurity. The excerpts that follow might remind you of stories that came later. I’ve spent the past few years, on behalf of the ...

Scientists from the early 20th century like Marie Curie made groundbreaking discoveries in ways that scientists today may be struggling to do. Artur Widak / Getty Images Get the Popular Science ...

For thousands of years, thinkers argued about whether light is made of particles or waves. At the beginning of the 20th century, scientists realized it was both: massless particles and waves. An ...

Early 20th-century Houston sowed seeds of medical future Ben Taub, Memorial Hermann trace roots to advances made in transitionary period By Mihir Zaveri , Reporter Updated June 12, 2016 8:34 p.m.