The Internet Archive is proud to announce that the Poynter Institute and Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) will receive the 2026 Internet Archive Hero Award for their leadership in preserving ...

Like Earth, most planetary bodies circle their star in stable, detached orbits. These companionable systems can suddenly change when a planet comes too close to its star. In such a close encounter, a ...

Take Nature’s quiz on female Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry or physiology or medicine.

There is growing concern that AI can blunt memory and reasoning. But science shows ways to keep the brain sharp.

Globular clusters are some of the most ancient cosmic relics that still survive in our Milky Way today. Famed Terzan 5 isn't one of them.

A big-screen adaptation of Dr. Ronald Mallett's memoir 'Time Traveler' is in the works from Wild Nest Pictures & Jagman Productions.

Many companies are accidentally training AI on their most sensitive data. And opting out doesn't fix it the way most people think. (Grab the high-res PDF and detailed comparison of all 3 companies he...

Four astronauts embarked on a high-stakes flight around the moon, humanity’s first lunar voyage in more than half a century.

Why do some scientific breakthroughs look different up close than they do in our textbooks? How did math quietly shape the modern world? Math! Science! History! explores the human side of discovery,…

What does it take to preserve knowledge when libraries burn, records disappear, and history itself is under threat? In this episode of Math! Science! History!, Gabrielle Birchak takes a closer look…

Astronomers have been scratching their heads over the composition and nature of Uranus’s atmosphere for decades. Now, a PhD student at the UK’s Northumbria University has used data from the James…

Transistors based on atomically thin transition-metal dichalcogenides appear particularly robust

Intuition breaks down once we’re dealing with the endless. To begin with: Some infinities are bigger than others.

Scientific research, artificial intelligence and modern bank security all rely on probability.

Mercury is a neurotoxic metal that can cause irreparable harm to human health – especially the brain development of young children. A scientist explains how it gets from power plants to fish to you.

A leading chemistry educator and musician who proposed a new periodic table of elements to explain the unusual structures of boron hydrides.

Step into the laboratory at Math! Science! History! where time bends, ideas spark, equations echo, and the past hums with the electricity of what’s to come. Each week, Gabrielle Birchak lights the…

Episode Overview In the 1660s, two towering thinkers, Thomas Hobbes and Robert Boyle, clashed over a strange new machine: the air pump. What looked like a technical disagreement about air and vacuum…

Before Isaac Newton’s ideas reshaped Europe, his work struggled to gain traction in Italy. This episode revisits the remarkable life of Laura Bassi, the first woman in history to hold an academic…

Just as avalanches on snowy mountains start with the movement of a small quantity of snow, the ESA-led Solar Orbiter spacecraft has discovered that a solar flare is triggered by initially weak disturb...

Hidden Fibonacci numbers, a new shape and the search for a grand unified theory of mathematics are among our choices for most exciting findings of the year

Step into the laboratory at Math! Science! History! where time bends, ideas spark, equations echo, and the past hums with the electricity of what’s to come. Each week, Gabrielle Birchak lights the…

A big-screen adaptation of Dr. Ronald Mallett's memoir 'Time Traveler' is in the works from Wild Nest Pictures & Jagman Productions.