History of Science

Countries' current pledges for greenhouse gas cuts will fail to achieve a peak in energy-related emissions by 2030 and likely result in a temperature rise of 2.6 degrees Celsius by the end of the century, the International Energy Agency said on Monday.

A graph that plots rising CO₂ over the decades has always been a lesser known icon in demonstrating the reality of global warming.

Autism and schizophrenia are related to different forms of creativity

Statistics have suggested a sharp increase in the number of American women dying as a complication of pregnancy since the late 1980s, but a closer look at the data hints that all is not as it seems

The grandson of the great physicist Niels Bohr describes the scientist’s life and work

John Horgan critiques biologist Jerry Coyne's new book Faith vs. Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible.

Black balls that litter the planet may prove the best marker for a new geologic epoch recognizing humanity's outsized impacts

The Thirty Meter Telescope can revolutionize astronomy and become a part of the holy mountain’s rich cultural heritage

In 1994 researchers made a mummy. Now scientists have reverse engineered the process to figure out how it's done, with the mummy makers still around to tell them how they did. Cynthia Graber reports

A historical analysis suggests a link between IQ and performance

The four-year study took thousands of samples at hundreds of sites