Many advances in technology spring from the mind of a single genius, but others, like nuclear power, are the product of many minds over generations.

Despite the mixed rhetoric from Washington, US military planning and capability remains key to Nato war plans. Last summer, Lieutenant General Chris Donahue, the head of US Army Europe and Africa, ...

Explore the connection between atheism and humanism, the suppression of humanist principles by the church, and the importance of separating church and state.

The suggestion that ancient Greeks reached America before Columbus may seem far-fetched, but certain researchers think otherwise ...

Best-selling Swiss author Erich von Daeniken, who built a lucrative career on his argument, rubbished by scientists and ...

The Rod of Asclepius remains a symbol of health and medicine around the world to this day. Asclepius was a demi-god son of ...

The intricate system allegedly operated through electronic oscillography, analyzing sound waves with unprecedented precision and converting them back into their original forms. Light could be ...

New archaeological evidence is helping rewrite old myths about disabled people in the ancient world. Early Roman Empire depiction of a Freedman and Freedwoman, 30-15 BCE. British Museum, London, UK.

Almost exactly 200 years ago, French physicist Sadi Carnot determined the maximum efficiency of heat engines. The Carnot ...

Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier, the French scientist, is known as the Father of Chemistry (Specifically, the Father of Modern ...

Sobek, crocodile-headed god of the Nile; Sekhmet, leonine goddess of war; Anubis, jackal god of the underworld; and Hathor, mother goddess with a cow’s horns: The ancient Egyptian pantheon of gods was ...

Scientists have shed light on the true origins of the so-called "first black Briton". The skeletal remains - dating from Roman times - were previously thought to belong to a woman from the sub-Saharan ...