Will the overselling of climate change lead to a new scientific dark age? That’s the question being posed in the latest issue of an Australian literary journal, Quadrant, by Garth Paltridge, one ...

International scientific cooperation was crucial in maintaining relations between antagonistic parties during the cold war. Now, during Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine, we should not ...

Under house arrest in Egypt, one mathematician transformed how we examine the world. 500 years before the Scientific Revolution, the mathematician Al-Hassan Ibn al-Haytham spent hours in a dark ...

Recent research has exploded almost every myth about the scientific stagnation of the Middle Ages. ... They were, it’s universally assumed, the Dark Ages—a time of superstition, ...

The fascinating world of biomimicry 06:00. Frogs and salamanders have been keeping a secret from humans — they can actually glow in the dark. In fact, every single species of amphibian tested in ...

If this idea is correct, such "dark matter lampshades" could help solve the mystery of what dark matter is made of. This is a huge problem in science because, despite making up around 85% of the ...

Later, as church dominance waned, the Dark Ages were succeeded by the Renaissance (1400-1600), the Scientific Revolution (1543-1687) and the Enlightenment (1715-1789), allowing people to slake ...

If you go outside on a dark night, in the darkest places on Earth, you can see as many as 9,000 stars. They present as tiny points of light, but in reality, they are massive infernos.

Freeing up dark data could represent one of the biggest boons to research in decades, fueling advances in genetics, neuroscience, and biotech. So why doesn't it happen?

Valentine's Day is nearly here. Whether you're spending it with your significant other or flying solo, chocolate is often in the mix. But which is the better choice: milk or dark chocolate?