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 ...

The book traverses India’s active role in global vaccine research landscape from 1890s to 1940s; the next two decades—1950s ...

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

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 ...

“Usually” is a significant qualifier, because unrefrigerated raw milk sours easily as lactic acid-producing bacteria in the ...

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 explains why simple hand hygiene still protects health today and why evidence ...

James Webb Space Telescope captures unprecedented views of the early universe, unveiling new space findings that illuminate the cosmic dawn and galaxy formation. Pixabay, BlenderTimer The James Webb ...

AI breakthroughs transforming science—accelerating discoveries in medicine, materials, and the environment with intelligent data and automation. Pixabay, geralt Artificial Intelligence (AI) is ...

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 ...

Not every notable discovery consists of a single extraordinary artifact, a previously unknown structure, or a newly revised date for an ancient technology. Some of the most significant discoveries ...