science

The idea that galaxies were clusters of stars, gas, and dust had only been confirmed in the 1920s, but by 1933, Fritz Zwicky was convinced that was not the whole story.

When Georges LeMaitre first proposed the Big Bang theory in 1927, everyone thought he was crazy.

Dinosaurs had feathers. Poison ivy could take over. Plants are celebrating as humans perish in the San Diego fires.

The first things you notice at Fermilab are the buffalo. After building the world’s most powerful particle accelerator underground, the physics lab decided to turn the land above it into a prairie preserve populated by a herd of American bison.

Oct. 4 marks the best holiday you will never celebrate: the National Day of Shame. Congress proposed the holiday to commemorate the 1957 launch of Sputnik and the U.S.’s loss in the Space Race against the USSR.

Researchers from the Mailman School of Public Health are pioneers in a new field of study. Mailman researchers, with the help of colleagues from the Universities of Minnesota, Alabama (Birmingham), California (San Francisco), and Harvard University, conducted one of the first studies linking racial discrimination to health-risk behavior.