When Glushko earned his doctoral degree from UC San Diego in 1979, his thesis committee included David Rumelhart, Donald Norman, Jay McClelland and Jeff Elman, four of the world’s foremost cognitive ...

Archaeologists in Britain say they've found the earliest evidence of humans making fires anywhere in the world. The discovery ...

NASA has lost contact with MAVEN, a spacecraft that has been orbiting Mars for more than 11 years and one of only three ...

Ancient pterosaurs may have taken to the skies far earlier and more explosively than birds, evolving flight at their very ...

Nursing is one of the most vital and enduring professions in the world, rooted in compassion, resilience, and a deep ...

If authentic, these codices would represent one of the most significant archaeological discoveries related to Christianity's formative years. However, their unusual appearance and controversial ...

Charles “Buffalo” Jones invented the cow-buffalo hybrid in 1888. His intention? To create the hardiest free-range livestock ...

The ancient world was probably filled with magicians using science only a few understood, but the works of one man have ...

Pterosaurs acquired flight "in a burst at their origin," giving scientists new insights into the biological laws of flight ...

Regarded as the father of medicine, Hippocrates was also the first food historian, exploring human nutrition and linking wisdom to science.

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 ...

A rave for kids at the Asian Art Museum this weekend and a holiday market at SFMOMA, plus lots more across the city.