Early scientific theories—such as those explaining basic phenomena like gravity, burning, and the movement of molecules in ...

A new study reveals how a hidden human bias has shaped centuries of scientific errors, from Galileo to modern research.

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The First Amendment has been part of all our lives since December 15, 1791, the day the Bill of Rights was ratified. It has been with us 233 years—also not nearly long enough. Now or later, all of us ...

The transverse Thomson effect is observed for the first time: current, heat, and magnetic fields generate controlled cooling ...

For scientists, learning more about how black holes behave is essential to understanding how the universe works. A recent ...

The effects of apex corruption extend beyond democratic values. “They also decrease trust, not only in democratic ...

The historian Kyle Harper on the history of plagues, the rise of anti-vaccination politics, and why measles is back in ...

Research and experiments on airdrops in France began with the first LABEX (LArgage Bombardier d’eau EXperimentation) ...

Phases of ice that exist naturally only on frozen moons could be detected using infrared spectroscopy, according to new ...