Two-thirds of the world's food comes today from just nine plants: sugar cane, maize (corn), rice, wheat, potatoes, soybeans, ...

Today, seed banks around the world are doing much of the work of saving crop varieties that could be essential resources ...

[Statement (c)] is a proposition about the expected outcome couched in arithmetical terms. It certainly does not mean that ...

“We can see here the first formation of a proto-international scientific community,” says computational historian Matteo Valleriani of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science ... shook the ...

Think of Copernicus, Darwin and the scientific backing for human actions lacking free will. Our brains are wired to be ‘lazy’ ...

Presidential election night in 2016 and a high-spirited crowd has gathered at the Javits convention centre on New York’s ...

Researchers investigating how the first writing arose identified the motifs on preliterate "cylinder seals" used in the trade ...

Behold one of the world’s greatest slag heaps: A towering landfill piled sky high with the leftovers from the Industrial Revolution. Not a postcard, to be honest. It is an eyesore, hidden under a bit ...

A museum in Virginia has nearly finished restoring the nation’s oldest surviving schoolhouse for Black children.

Ocean farming, or mariculture, holds promise for a sustainable food future, but it could also negatively alter the world’s marine footprint.

Cattle and conservation don’t typically mix. For centuries, East African pastoralists like the Maasai trudged across the ...

In a world where wealth is often equated with power, some influential figures have chosen a different path by pledging ...