A new study revisits ancient Chinese records to explore whether a comet could explain the Star of Bethlehem described in ...

It seems the AI hype has turned into an AI bubble. There have been many bubbles before, from the Tulip mania of the 17th ...

These days, we would call them proprietary blends. But in the late 1500s and early 1600s, individual alchemists called the ...

For decades, Mars has been a dynamic, living world hiding in plain sight. This video reveals how orbiters like NASA's Mars ...

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Originally published in England under the title The Fontana history of astronomy and cosmology. Statement of responsibility from jacket. Prehistory -- Ancient Egypt -- Mesopotamia -- The Greek and ...

After attending a friend’s wedding in Jaipur recently, we decided to explore the city. Jaipur, India’s first planned city, ...

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A NASA planetary scientist has proposed what may be the first scientifically sound explanation for the mysterious Star of Bethlehem that guided the three wise men to the infant Jesus over two ...

For much of the twentieth century, scientists expected the expanding universe to slow over time. The opposite turned out to ...

India is actively pursuing a decolonisation agenda, moving beyond English's historical dominance. This initiative, championed ...