Creator Gary Larson often used historical humor in his classic Far Side cartoons, occasionally lampooning known events with ...

As the Renaissance breathes new life into Europe, Copernicus develops mathematical proofs for the sun resting in the center of the universe. And from his works, a new world is born. The scientific ...

Cats are quicker than babies to associate a picture of a word with its corresponding picture, new research shows.

A new exhibition that documents the impact of the Industrial Revolution features several 1800s artists, writers and thinkers ...

A professor at UPEI is designing a set of educational tools to make climate change easier for kids to understand.The ...

We truly need a free press. But as the world changes, we don’t need it to be part of an old ritual. So, I am going to have to ...

This work is an important contribution to understanding the role of FGF signaling in the induction of primitive-like cells in a 2D system of human gastrulation. The authors provide compelling evidence ...

As ministers back an all Ireland campaign to tackle obesity, Professor Donal O’Shea from University College Dublin says ...

For your giftee are foodstuffs, home goods, clothes, paraphernalia and tchotchkes that are small in stature but imbued with ...

How the eagle spread its wings. The Independent almost wasn’t The Independent. When the founders of the paper were taking the ...