The Palo Alto Museum, a nonprofit group that is preparing to open a history museum on Homer Avenue next spring, announced this week that it has selected its new leader, tapping Marguerite Gong Hancock ...

Technology influences many aspects of life. It also plays a part in the creation of art. For the artist duo MyFi Studio, one ...

The evolutionary quirks unveiled by the new research offer insight into how a subset of ichthyosaurs lived and hunted– and ...

Ancient trackways in seabed mud show animals moved purposefully 10 million years before the Cambrian Explosion.

On Wednesday, Sotheby’s will auction off a chunk of rock believed to have originated on Mars for an anticipated two to four ...

From the internet to the ozone layer, AI to the human genome, UC scientists have turned federal research funding into history ...

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In 1975, a meet-up between American and Soviet spacefarers in orbit showed that the superpowers could work together. Its ...

One hundred years after a Tennessee teacher named John Scopes started a legal battle over what the state’s schools can teach children, Americans are still divided over evolution.

A common scanning method used to create ‘virtual copies’ of precious fossils could be erasing some of the crucial information held within.

Alsop & Störmer's Stirling Prize-winning library is given a rave review by Building's impressed, if slightly confused, ...