Hypatia of Alexandria, a renowned mathematician and philosopher, taught in the ancient world when few women had such opportunities. Her life as a public intellectual and advisor ended tragically in ...

At SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park, scientists from across the globe are using advanced X-rays to find a long-lost map of the galaxy by ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus.

At SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park, scientists from across the globe are using advanced X-rays to find a long-lost map of the galaxy by ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus.

Greek philosopher Epicurus is famous for teaching: "Pleasure is the principle and end to a happy life" and for his Epicurean school in Athens ...

For decades, a fractured Ancient Greek clay wine cup sitting in a museum was considered typical of pottery featuring rows of exotic animals.

“If you want to live a long life, keep a little aged wine and an old friend,” Pythagoras advised as a way to achieve the longevity so many desire and that, unfortunately, seems within reach of only a ...

Donald G. York was a longtime University of Chicago astronomer and astronomy professor who co-founded the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, a wide-ranging mapping of the solar system that produced a ...

In a monastery library on the Sinai Peninsula, a devotional handbook by the monk John Climacus sat quietly for centuries ...

The parchments initially contained references to a star catalog and maps created during the second century B.C.E.

Scientists used a particle accelerator to uncover centuries-old star observations by Hipparchus.Jacqueline Ramseyer Orrell/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Ancient Greek astronomers made important ...

Researchers at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park, California, have used X-ray beams to reveal once-hidden references to an ancient star map from a centuries-old document. Now, the ...

Scientists have successfully decoded portions of a long-lost star catalog created by the ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus, using powerful synchrotron radiation produced by a particle accelerator ...