This year’s Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences – like many in the past – spotlights theories about causes for growth. One key: an openness to new and often challenging ideas.

Ever hear of Jeremy Bentham? He was an Englishman, a political philosopher who lived in the 18th and 19th centuries—and he ...

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences for their work ...

Professor John Hassler, from left, Hans Ellegren, Permanent Secretary of the Academy of Sciences and Professor Kerstin Enflo, announce Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt as the recipients ...

The over 7,000 square foot exhibition is organized around da Vinci's study of nature's four elements: earth with cranes and a ...

The Mona Lisa, The Last Supper. Leonardo da Vinci is best known for those famous paintings, but some are unaware he was also an engineer, scientist, inventor, and more — and the Leonardo da Vinci ...

In Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser and other city officials testified before the House Oversight Committee about crime in the nation's capital and oversight of the district.

A groundbreaking project is piecing together Leonardo da Vinci’s genetic profile by tracing his lineage across 21 generations and comparing DNA from living descendants with remains in a Da Vinci ...

For more than 500 years, Leonardo da Vinci has remained the Renaissance’s most enigmatic figure — a painter, scientist, engineer, and dreamer whose genius seemed almost otherworldly. Yet, for all the ...