Science Discoveries

OXFORD, July 11 — The record shows that in 1940, a team at the University of Oxford achieved…

LONDON, July 11 — Against the backdrop of the Science Museum in South Kensington, a gleaming brass-and-steel contraption…

WASHINGTON, July 11 — The Global Positioning System, the invisible architecture that guides everything from precision munitions to…

LONDON, July 11 — The story of penicillin begins with a dirty petri dish and a scientist who…

LONDON, July 11 — Against this backdrop of rapid advances in artificial intelligence, the intellectual foundations laid nearly…

ROME, July 10 — A hidden underground chamber has been uncovered beneath the residence of a Roman emperor,…

WASHINGTON, July 10 — The shift is subtle but unmistakable: nuclear threats, once a Cold War relic, are…

PANAMA CITY, July 10 — The Panama Canal stands as one of the most audacious and strategically consequential…

LONDON, July 10 — Against this backdrop of a century defined by speed, it is worth recalling that…

KITTY HAWK, North Carolina, July 10 — For communities across Asia that have watched aviation transform how families…

WASHINGTON, July 10 — The figure that matters: two years. That is how long John Frank Stevens served…

SACRAMENTO, July 10 — The black powder smoke has long since cleared from the Sierra Nevada, but the…

WASHINGTON, July 10 — The numbers, as ever, tell a brutal technical story. An estimated 30 million bison…

WASHINGTON, July 10 — The transcontinental railroad, that great steel sinew binding the American continent, did not merely…

PROMONTORY SUMMIT, Utah Territory, May 10 — A single telegraph click changed everything. The message “DONE” flashed across…

SAN FRANCISCO, July 10 — What drove a man to cross an ocean, pick up a pickaxe, and…

WASHINGTON, July 10 — The sound of a single golden spike, driven into a railroad tie at Promontory…

WASHINGTON, July 10 — The figure that matters: the gap between the Soviet Union and the United States…

COUNCIL BLUFFS, July 10 — The dust and din of the Union Pacific rail yards have long since…

LONDON, July 10 — The world’s monetary system, built for centuries on the tangible weight of precious metal,…

PARIS, July 10 — Against the backdrop of the 19th century’s great scientific awakening, one figure stands apart:…

SINGAPORE, July 9 — There is something quietly revolutionary happening with the water that goes down our drains.…

LONDON, July 9 — The shift is hiding in plain sight under the Atlantic. When we talk about…

LIVERMORE, Calif., July 9 — Strategically, the United States has held a card in the global energy and…