IN 1919, 23-year-old artist André Breton, enamoured with the latest developments in science, decided it was time to leave the world of Dada behind. The Dada art movement, born amid the turmoil of the ...

There is something quietly humbling about standing before an ancient artifact and realizing, with all of our satellites, supercomputers, and electron microscopes, we still have no clue how it was made ...

Scientists have identified traces of two previously unknown ancestral populations hidden in modern human DNA, offering new ...

Dr. Michael Guillén says his deep understanding of science — including modern cosmology and human consciousness — dismantled his atheism. Today, because of what I’ve learned on my long, winding ...

A groundbreaking collaboration between Los Alamos scientists and Duke University has resurrected a nearly forgotten 1938 experiment that may have quietly sparked the age of fusion energy. Arthur ...

I once had the opportunity to have lunch with Nobelist Murray Gell-Mann at a US National Academy of Sciences meeting. Gell-Mann’s many notable breakthroughs are crowned by his discovery of quarks, an ...

NOBEL prizes in science are awarded for the fruits of curiosity moderated by discipline; Ig Nobel prizes for the results of apparently aimless curiosity. Thus, curiosity in science may inspire both ...