In Ken Burns’s newest documentary, the war for independence was also a civil war. Amid a bitter fight over history, its ...

We come into the world screaming and vulnerable—entirely dependent on adult caregivers to keep us safe and teach us how to connect with others. The nature of these earliest relationships influences ...

A poll from the journal Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country. That includes a man who’s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." Stephanie Sy examines what’s ...

Forget the romantic image of golden sunsets and peaceful wagon rides - the Oregon Trail was a graveyard on wheels. Settlers faced starvation, disease, and exhaustion from dawn to dusk. A day began at ...

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Nov. 6, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan today announced the launch of a first-of-its-kind initiative combining frontier artificial intelligence and ...

More than 200 Nobel Prize winners have written for Scientific American. Discover their accomplishments and other groundbreaking research with 30% savings on any subscription. Please note that you ...

For millennia, folks around the world have passed down stories of lost treasure both by land and by sea. Across all corners of the planet, you’re bound to happen upon a tale of buried gold, misplaced ...

The British assault Breed's Hill and Bunker Hill near Boston in the bloodiest battle of the war. The British plan to capture Breed's Hill and Bunker Hill on the Charlestown peninsula overlooking ...

Stories describing what can happen when science is manipulated or misapplied are among the winners of the 2025 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards. Winning journalists also did stories on science at ...

A bloody clash between Bostonians and the British army leaves five dead in the Boston Massacre. On October 1st, 1768, General Gage and the British Army arrive in Boston to begin their occupation.

Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) exhibits a degree of resistance to mutagenesis under genotoxic stress, and this study on the mitochondrial Transcription Factor A (TFAM) presents valuable data concerning the ...

The Patriots catch wind of a secret British plan to move troops from Boston into Concord and they dispatch William Dawes and Paul Revere to warn other Patriots that the British are coming. The British ...