From vaccines to semiconductors, the scientific method made the U.S. a superpower. Abandoning it could reverse decades of ...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. Roald Sagdeev has already watched one scientific empire rot from the inside. When Sagdeev began his career, in ...

Georgetown University chemistry professor Joseph Earley had just dropped a hand-sized pebble, with a clatter, onto the table at the front of the lecture hall, and then held it aloft, while loudly ...

More than half a century ago at Queen’s University Belfast in Northern Ireland, Michael McElroy’s classmates had just finished an exceptionally difficult math exam and were ready to vent. But first ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Over 100 years ago the unearthing of a skull in the Sussex countryside became an international story of scientific discovery, ...

In the most talked-about film from the final year of the 20th century, "The Matrix," a computer hacker named Neo finds that the world he lives and works in isn't real. It's a virtual reality, created ...