Florence Nightingale, born in Florence on this day in 1820, made her world measurably better. She counted the dead ...

History professor Jessica Riskin was elected to the American Philosophical Society on May 1, making her a member of the ...

Extreme weather including droughts and flash floods looming as forecasters say powerful heating is underway in the Pacific ...

Climate change has driven record-breaking outbreaks of fire in Africa, Asia and elsewhere this year, with conditions expected ...

North Carolina museums participating in Museums for All offer budget-friendly access to exhibits, local stories, and family ...

Texas tornado history on May 11 includes Waco’s deadliest F5 tornado and Lubbock’s destructive F5 storm on the Fujita scale.

Piccard never intended the vehicle for commercial use, but instead envisioned it as a way to raise awareness for sustainable ...

From a peak of activity in the 1980s, serial killers have been (thankfully) on the decline. But what is behind the drop?

A century ago, scientists began to study enigmatic Nasca geoglyphs in Peru. Thanks to AI, the known number has nearly doubled ...

FDA approved a pill that would change the way scientists treat cancer … for good. The pill was called Gleevec; it was ...

In ‘A Voice in the Wilderness,’ Joseph L. Graves Jr. discusses his scientific journey, how he debates racists, and more.

Sergey Brin’s family fled Soviet authoritarianism, an experience he’s now invoking to portray a proposed wealth tax as Soviet ...