Scientists have calculated the Earth to be 4.54 billion years old, with an uncertainty of 50 million years on either side.

Ernest Rutherford’s quip that science is either physics or stamp collecting has to be one of the silliest statements ever. Aside from the fact that it is semi-apocryphal, it sets up a false dichotomy, ...

R. Soc., including Paul Dirac, Werner Heisenberg, James Clerk Maxwell, Ernest Rutherford, and Erwin Schrödinger. The Proceedings started out in 1800 as the Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the ...

When the photographer Ernest Cole died in 1990 at the age of 49 from pancreatic cancer at a Manhattan hospital, his death was ...

Raoul Peck looks at the compelling South African photographer, who died in 1990, whose work gets a second life onscreen.

The Seahawks won't be eliminated from contention if they lose to the Cardinals on Sunday. But a defeat would waste a gift-wrapped chance to seize the NFC West.

“Ernest Cole: Lost and Found” is drawn from Cole’s own writings. In words and images, Peck brings the tragic story of Cole to vivid life, reopening the lens through which Cole so ...

The end of the year is (almost) upon us and National Geographic is wrapping up 2024 with its annual "Picture of the Year" issue featuring photographers' most breathtaking and culturally relevant ...

To ballot selfie, or not to ballot selfie, that is the question. In some states, taking a picture with your ballot isn't even an option. With Election Day fast approaching, millions across the ...

The photos appeared in the April 2024 story “Going the Distance.” Photograph by Michael Forsberg From above, the viewer can trace trails laid down by brown bears traversing the green sedge of ...

The author on writing stories with ‘emotional punch’ for children, walking in to a bomb during the Troubles, and his ...