In 2003, Kary Mullis took The Scientist readers behind the scenes of the night in 1983 when he came up with the idea for PCR. He included a photo of his lab notebook that depicts his very first ...

Scientists uncovered bone fragments from an ancient child in a Siberian cave estimated to be around ninety thousand years old. Analysis revealed that the girl's mother was a Neanderthal while her ...

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 ...

At a small local chapter meeting of a professional society, Gordon Moore's talk laid out the rudiments of what would become "Moore's law", which would govern the electronics industry for a half ...