Turning back the pages through centuries of science! Dan Smith has the story of an Italian historian's incredible find on a ...

The Fourth Edition of the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence, just published by the Federal Judicial Center (FJC) and ...

Carl Bergstrom is an evolutionary biologist at the University of Washington in Seattle and the co-author of an open online course about how to learn and thrive in a ChatGPT world. Time is a precious ...

Notations made in the margins of a 16th century edition of Ptolemy’s The Almagest were likely scrawled by an auspicious author: Galileo Galilei Handwriting analysis determined that the famed ...

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, ...

Artificial intelligence can do a lot of things, but controlling the weather isn’t one of them.

A bunch of people in the audience took photos of that slide. Both findings seem easy to remember, if only because the research confirms what most people feel about meetings: Most of the time, the only ...

Music has been central to human cultures for tens of thousands of years, but how our brains perceive it has long been shrouded in mystery. Now, researchers at UC San Francisco have developed a precise ...

Harvard’s undergraduate pre-professional culture is infamous. Finance, consulting, and tech were the most popular industries for graduating seniors in 2024. Harvard founders — dropouts, alums, or even ...

Galileo's handwritten notes in a 1551 copy of Ptolemy's Almagest National Central Library of Florence Notes, annotations and a Bible verse handwritten by a young Galileo Galilei around 1590 have ...