After decades of setting the pace for tech and innovation, the U.S. is at risk of surrendering its lead in the race that will ...

Work on medical uses of mind-altering substances was sidelined for decades by the political backlash against drugs, a misstep ...

On October 13th 1947, a U.S. Air Force B-17 bomber left the runway and headed directly into the path of a hurricane that was ...

The successful launch of Sputnik — the world’s first artificial satellite to orbit Earth — on October 4, 1957 rocketed ...

The notice offered a $10,000 prize to anyone who could invent a substitute for ivory in billiard balls. Playing pool was a booming leisure activity at the time, but the demand for ivory was already ...

Space missions in the future could travel to Mars, asteroids and the outer solar system by riding on nuclear-powered rockets, ...

Hand fossils unearthed in Kenya reveal that an extinct human relative called Paranthropus boisei had unexpected dexterity and gorilla-like strength.

His CIA code name is Condor. In the next seventy-two hours almost everyone he trusts will try to kill him.

His CIA code name is Condor. In the next seventy-two hours almost everyone he trusts will try to kill him.

A 4,000-year-old pharaonic painting has vanished from Egypt ’s famed Saqqara necropolis, the latest artefact to disappear in mysterious circumstances. At such a critical moment in US history, we need ...

“In the best-case scenario, when you adopt these new techniques, even on the same old data, it’s kind of like putting on ...