In 1995, a man named Clifford Stoll sat at his desk and made a prophecy. He was a tech columnist, one of the supposed sharp minds of the digital age, and yet, with full confidence, he declared that ...

Tucked into the northwest corner of the Evergreen State, Whatcom County's 2,503 square miles have a well-earned reputation ...

When Jimmie Johnson made the bold switch from stock car racing to IndyCar, the motorsport world watched with curiosity and awe. Among those who were in admiration of the move was Josef Newgarden.

A fossilised 113-million-year-old hell ant from Brazil adds to the evidence that the first ants evolved in the southern ...

In the sweltering summer of AD18, a desperate chant echoed across China's sun-scorched plains: "Heaven has gone blind!" ...

In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re dead ...

Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple ...

Ingrida Domarkienė, a geneticist at Vilnius University in Lithuania, discusses the exciting developments made possible by ...

In the years since, Hubble has gathered more than 1.6 million observations and 430 terabytes of data. The telescope has ...

As Rhode Island prepares to welcome a brand new, state-of-the-art stadium, we take a look back at some of the Ocean State's forums of old.

Pope Francis' lying-in-state has been taken over by people holding up their smartphones in crowds as they try to capture the historic moment at St Peter's Basilica ...

Nearly 150 years ago, scientists began to imagine how information might flow through the brain based on the shapes of neurons ...