The University of California opened its doors in 1869 with just 10 faculty members and 40 students. Today, the UC system has more than 300,000 students and 265,000 faculty and staff, with 2.5 million ...

This substantial chemistry primer (following The Book of Totally Irresponsible Science) explores complex concepts in an approachable, graphics-laden format. Connolly’s first 20 chapters focus on a ...

A team of psychologists at the University of Manchester, in the U.K., working with a colleague from Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, in Morocco, has found that children tend to behave differently ...

For the first time, scientists using chia seed experiments have confirmed that Alan Turing's mathematical model can explain patterns seen in nature. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

Science in the early 20th century was undergoing many simultaneous revolutions. Radiological dating numbered the years of Earth’s existence in the billions, and eons of sediment demonstrated its ...