Beulah Louise Henry was just nine years old when she came up with her first invention in 1896, a device that allowed a man to tip his hat without ever putting down his newspaper. By her death in 1973, ...

There’s no moon landing without Robert Goddard. This month marks 100 years since Goddard launched the first liquid fuel rocket on a farm outside of Worcester. Clark University is celebrating the man ...

Data suggest people lived at Chile’s Monte Verde site thousands of years later than thought, challenging key “pre-Clovis” evidence. Not all agree.

History has a strange habit of forgetting its own brilliance. Civilizations rose, fell, and took entire libraries of knowledge with them - engineering secrets, chemical formulas, mechanical wonders ...

I remember the first time I attended a linguistics lecture as an undergraduate in Argentina. The lecturer asked a simple question: where does language come from? My instinctive answer was: books.

Todd Otanicar, associate dean for research affairs in the College of Engineering, has been named a 2026 Senior Member of the ...

There was a doctor in Chicago years ago named Victor Frankenstein, and one of his jobs was finding medical specimens. When ...

A century after Robert H. Goddard's first liquid-fueled rocket launch, a celebration honored his legacy in space exploration.

Robert Goddard's 1926 launch of the first liquid-fueled rocket, though modest, marked a pivotal moment in rocketry. His foundational principles, including turbopumps and gimbaling engines, are now ...

From ancient rituals to modern superstition, Italy’s beliefs in luck and the evil eye continue to shape language, behavior ...