Happy Ada Lovelace Day! Exhibit Honors 1st Computer Programmer
This woman wrote the world's first computer code 100 years before the computer was invented.
This woman wrote the world's first computer code 100 years before the computer was invented.
Calculating machines and notes that predict the future of computing are among the items on display at the new exhibit.
Pornography has a myriad of effects on the brain, from shutting down the visual system to potentially shrinking parts of the brain associated with reward.
Two giant panda cubs were born today (Oct. 13) at the Toronto Zoo, becoming the first pandas ever born on Canadian soil.
People in Antarctica may drink more because of the cold, cooped-up conditions; a hypermasculine environment; boredom; and isolation.
People infected with the superbug methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) may pass the bacteria to their pets, a new study suggests.
The public dialogue about science is perhaps the most vital and most fraught national conversation not taking place in our country, and the ramifications are profound.
Just as the moon's gravitational pull causes seas and lakes to rise and fall as tides on Earth, the Earth exerts tidal forces on the moon. Scientists have known this for a while, but now they've found that Earth's pull actually opens up faults on the moon
Regular coloring books are so 2014.
This sweet fall treat could be a breeding ground for dangerous bacteria.
Almost 30 years after a horrific accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant released massive amounts of radiation and became one of the world's worst nuclear catastrophes, many native wildlife species are once again finding refuge in the area.
A large piece of a man's dentures went missing, then turned up in an unusual place.
The phrase "busy as a beaver" aptly describes these big-toothed rodents that can change the landscape and their environment.
A bacterial infection may lead to the loss of a limb for an NFL player.