Socrates is widely regarded as the father of Western philosophy. In ancient Greece, he encouraged people to ask questions and promoted critical thinking as a way for citizens to live more fulfilling ...

Hardy bacteria could survive the trip from one planet to another, hidden among the debris from an asteroid impact, a new ...

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The idea that life can spread from world to world dates as far back as ancient Greece and the philosopher Anaxagoras. It's called panspermia, and while it's not exactly a mainstream scientific idea, ...

The Ancient Greeks were the first to delve into rational, scientific thought, transitioning from mythology to more evidence-based thinking about the world. Photo of Hippocrates teaching his students ...

The ancient Greeks are credited with having made many early advancements in science and mathematics which influenced later western civilization. Aristarchus of Samos proposed an essentially ...

The Filippeios Krini (Philip’s Fountain) is a 2,300-year-old fountain that was commissioned by King Philip II of Macedonia. It has miraculous survived in working order to the present day, making it ...

Between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries, the study of biology was intimately intertwined with progress in medicine. So how, when and where did research into the life sciences begin? You have ...