Scholastic is launching the latest title in its multi-platform series the 39 Clues with some extra multimedia muscle. The publisher is teaming with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American ...

In a fascinating dive into the past, a team of researchers from the Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI) and USDA has uncovered intriguing details about the origins and spread of the bottle gourd, one of ...

When Robyn Young took a walking tour in Lansdowne, she found out about Tatiana Proskouriakoff. Young, a women’s historian wanted to find out more. Four years ago the Media resident started researching ...

“U-571” took a few shots across the bow this weekend in Hollywood’s latest battle for box-office supremacy. But the nerve-wracking submarine saga that had been America’s top-grossing film still ranks ...

The coconut (the fruit of the palm Cocos nucifera) is the Swiss Army knife of the plant kingdom; in one neat package it provides a high-calorie food, potable water, fiber that can be spun into rope, ...

This year is the 20 th anniversary of sequencing the human genome. In honor of this event, a research team led by Prof. FU Qiaomei from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology ...

The nature of history has been a contested topic among philosophers for centuries. Western thinkers like Georg Hegel and Karl Marx believe it to be a linear path with a beginning, middle and an end.

Berlin: Languages do not share a single history but different components evolve along distinct paths, say scientists who have found that grammatical structures change more quickly than vocabulary.