There's something uniquely frustrating about the world of scientific discovery. We celebrate the names we know, the heroes ...

Science is collaborative, painstaking and iterative, with progress slow and some unsung scientific heroes lost to time. But every once in a while, a key event, discovery or conceptual breakthrough has ...

Scientists recently uncovered a remarkable find beneath the Mediterranean Sea: an underwater bridge inside a partially flooded cave on the island of Mallorca. This ancient structure, hidden for ...

A slender thread of memory connects a Texas Hill Country man to a discovery that transformed modern technology. In 1916, Fred Schmidt’s grandfather, Jan Czochralski (1885-1953), a largely self-taught ...