On Oct. 3, 1950, three Bell Labs scientists received a patent for a "three-electrode circuit element" that would usher in the ...

Words matter. I'm reminded of this almost daily by a framed Nathaniel Hawthorne quote in my office that I received as a gift some years ago, which reads: "Words--so innocent and powerless as they are, ...

As more states add bans on teaching Black history in classrooms across America, Stacker highlighted 19 underrepresented ...

The plume of the so-called "forever chemicals" at the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant, the result of a 2004 fire at its ...

The Nobel Prize is considered the "Mount Everest of science." But it faces criticism over how winners are chosen, and may give a warped idea of scientific progress.

Nobody has ever lobbied as hard or as openly for the Nobel Peace Prize as Donald Trump. Time and again he has laid claim to ...

A lawyer's plan to acquire an apartment through a 'viager' contract turned into a decades-long financial debacle due to the ...

An exhibition at the Museum of the History of Medicine in Paris traces the saga of this discipline, from its beginnings to ...

Sometimes, it feels like technology moves so quickly that you could blink and find yourself behind the times. Devices that ...

Ziroh Labs, a deeptech startup at the forefront of Innovation in Artificial Intelligence, today announced the appointment of Dr Whitfield Diffie, ForMemRS, winner of the 2015 Turing Award for the ...

Ahead of the September 28 legislative vote, Moldova faced an influence campaign from Russia and Romania's far right aimed at ...

Inside the forensic lab where the tiniest trace of red shimmer—the "nearly perfect" form of proof—closed a case.