One of Benjamin Franklin's innovations is helping scientists today understand climate change.
Despite living and walking the streets of Philadelphia 250 years ago, research conducted by America's Founding Fathers ...
Everyone learns about lightning rods in grade school. There is the heavy-duty kind on skyscrapers that takes the brunt of bolts and conducts them safely to ground, and the delicate, sharply pointed ...
Playwright Tom Stoppard, in Rosencrantz and Guildernstern are Dead, provides one of the best definitions of science: “The scientific approach to the examination of phenomena is a defence against the ...