Wilson said the class’s development of combining physical skills and critical thinking allows students to develop their ...

The search for the biblical Star of Bethlehem has long hovered between faith and astronomy, but a new claim from a NASA comet ...

Scientists in Britain say ancient humans may have learned to make fire far earlier than previously believed, after uncovering ...

Three thought experiments involving “demons” have haunted physics for centuries. What should we make of them today?

Earth is not warming in a neat, even gradient. While the planet as a whole continues to heat up, one vast swath of the globe ...

The first Denisovan skull, an ancient hunter’s toolkit and a Roman man’s brain that has turned to glass: here are our picks ...

Peter Lindenfeld, a retired Rutgers University physics professor, celebrated educator and 65-year Princeton resident, died ...

The ancient world was probably filled with magicians using science only a few understood, but the works of one man have ...

Using ancient Chinese eclipse records, scientists have calculated the Earth’s variable rotational speed back to the year 709 ...

Because this record survived, we know more about ancient Chinese history, the rotation of the Earth, and past solar activity ...

An international team of researchers has used knowledge of historical geography to reexamine the earliest datable total solar ...