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 ...

A new AI machine learning technique helped historians analyze 76,000 pages from astronomy textbooks spanning nearly two centuries.

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

Making his mark in the modern context is American artist Celik Kayalar - an established scientist, filmmaker, and painter, ...

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 ...

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

The world's oldest known system of writing was influenced by symbols ... and is thought to be the earliest writing system — ...

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 ...

ChatGPT creator OpenAI has created a Safety & Security Committee chaired by the Carnegie Mellon University professor.