On Sept. 27, 1822, French philologist Jean-François Champollion announced that he had deciphered ancient Egyptian ...

Alexander Fleming was doing experiments with bacteria when he woke up to a strange mold growing in his petri dish. The "mold juice" would usher in the first antibiotic, penicillin, and would ...

When the quark hypothesis was first proposed more than 10 years ago, there were supposed to be three kinds of quark. The ...

Rhinoplasty is one of the most common facial plastic surgeries performed today. And it turns out, the ability to reconstruct ...

Jesse Gelsinger died after receiving a gene therapy treatment to treat a liver disease. The death sparked an investigation ...

This week in science: The world's second-largest diamond is being evaluated; the genetic secrets of a 117-year-old woman are uncovered; the bizarre origin story of our fingers; and much more!

An exhibit at Philadelphia's Science History Institute looks at food science through the lens of the school lunch program. (Emma Lee/WHYY) From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, ...

The annual Science and History Days event brings together scientists, researchers, and historians from both Glacier and Waterton Lakes National Park of Canada to share their research.

Medical scholars say that efforts to find a singular cause for autism have historically led to scrutinizing parents and ...

“When a scientist seeks public financing for research, the request is judged by the review panels for the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation and other Federal granting ...