Beer entered the Industrial Age — and the world would never drink the same again. With Louis Pasteur’s discoveries, brewing shifted from craft to science, giving rise to massive companies capable of ...

Thomas Edison said that genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. In “Serendipity: The Unexpected in Science,” Telmo Pievani adds a crucial element to the formula. Mr. Pievani, a biology ...

When UC Berkeley biochemist Jennifer Doudna first began studying how bacteria fight virus infections, she had no idea it ...

From “experimental archaeology” to the mysterious appeal of exploration, the wide-ranging subjects detailed in these titles captivated Smithsonian magazine’s science contributors this year ...

Ignaz Semmelweis cut childbed deaths dramatically by insisting doctors wash their hands, and was mocked for it. His story ...

Native American oral history and archaeological data alike suggest that farmers in parts of North America began abandoning major settlements such as Mesa Verde in Colorado and Cahokia in Illinois ...

A stone wall that lies nearly 70 feet underwater and stretches for more than half a mile on the floor of the Baltic Sea some six miles off the German coast appears to be the oldest known structure in ...

Joshua Lederberg, Nobel laureate and president of Rockefeller University, is well known in biology circles. Not so his wife, ...

Warner Bros. Discovery originally planned to break up its businesses until acquisition offers appeared in October. Paramount Skydance is one of Warner Bros. Discovery's most aggressive suitors with ...

Paramount, Comcast and Netflix are preparing bids to buy all or part of Warner Bros. Discovery, a crown jewel of the industry. By Benjamin Mullin Lauren Hirsch and Nicole Sperling Warner Bros.

A memo sent by the Smithsonian said transporting Discovery could swell in price and result in irreparable damage to the space shuttle. On paper, it reads like a riddle: How do you transport a 120-foot ...