NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks to mathematician Eugenia Cheng about the Pascaline — a 17th-century invention credited as the first mechanical calculator. Blaise Pascal was a mathematician, a scientist, a ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin is scheduled to hold a series of meetings with foreign leaders on Thursday following his address at the Global Atomic Forum, an event marking the 80th anniversary of ...

Fall is here, and that means the end of daylight saving time in 2025 is just around the corner. Milwaukee saw its last 7 p.m. sunset Sept. 15 and the days have been getting shorter ever since. We gain ...

President Trump told pregnant people they should not take acetaminophen because of a potential link to autism. In an announcement from the White House on Monday afternoon, Trump and Health and Human ...

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COLLEGE PARK, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--IonQ (NYSE: IONQ), the leader in the quantum computing and networking industries, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Vector ...

Leon Lobo is the head of the National Timing Centre research and development programme at the National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, UK. Chander Velu is professor of innovation and economics at the ...

On December 31, 1600, Queen Elizabeth I signed a royal charter granting the East India Company exclusive rights to conduct trade in the Indian Ocean region. The document was precise in its limitations ...

Imagine a country facing rising tensions with its neighbors. In a small research lab that looks no different from hundreds of others worldwide, scientists quietly tweak an ordinary influenza virus.

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