The existence of ant colonies was a mystery even to the famous naturalist Charles Darwin. How could evolution produce workers ...

Worms radically reorganized their genomes during their move from sea to land, supporting the theory of punctuated equilibrium ...

In 1925, a small-town trial became a national spectacle, pitting faith against science. Here's what to know about the lasting ...

English Heritage site Down House, the home of Charles Darwin, is just an hour from Watford and is great for a day out.

The famed naturalist and geologist Charles Darwin is, of course, best known for his works on evolution—specifically On the ...

Galileo’s scientific discoveries memorialized him as the father of modern astronomy. Adam Smith reaped the posthumous profits of notoriety as the father of capitalism, and Edgar Allen Poe’s puzzling ...

Understanding AI as a general-purpose technology helps clarify both its disruptive power and the obstacles that may delay or ...

Aqua Mare will be our home for a week while we embark on what is less of a cruise and more of a luxury safari at sea, island ...

About 150 scientists gathered at the Society of Catholic Scientists conference for talks that touched on the Thomistic notion ...

Today, by contrast, the marketers I study complain of being swamped by data and confused by information overload. And when I ...

Discover interesting facts about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ape cousins.

The “Boers” — the amaBunu and amaBulu — of more recent times had little to do with farming. But many were — and are — the descendants of families displaced and dispossessed by the “scorched earth” ...