She painstakingly cultured cells in a ramshackle lab until one day she discovered an extra chromosome in the cells of people with Down syndrome. This proved beyond a doubt that Down syndrome is ...

Parthenocarpy is a fascinating phenomenon in horticultural crops where fruit can develop without fertilization, resulting in seedless fruits. This trait is particularly desirable in many fruits ...

What she discovered was far worse than she anticipated: tweets in Spanish ranging from anti-Muslim sentiment to outright bigotry, all of which had remained public and unchallenged. I wasn’t ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Top officials at the World Health Organization met with diplomats from its member countries to map out a ...

Isaac Newton changed the way we understand the Universe. Revered in his own lifetime, he discovered the laws of gravity and motion and invented calculus. He helped to shape our rational world view.

On his first day back at the White House, President Donald Trump signed an executive order withdrawing the United States from the World Health Organization (WHO), a decision that has far-reaching ...

Brendan Cole is a Newsweek Senior News Reporter based in London, UK. His focus is Russia and Ukraine, in particular the war started by Moscow. He also covers other areas of geopolitics including ...

In February 2024, thousands of residents were evacuated in Plymouth, southwest England, as authorities worked to remove an unexploded 500-kilogram (1,102-pound) bomb discovered in a garden in the ...

A pregnant woman believed to have lived over a thousand years ago in Ecuador's coastal region may have been part of ritual sacrifice or punishment, according to archaeologists who excavated her ...

The bear, affectionately known by neighbors as Barry, was ultimately lured into a trap with apples, peanut butter and rotisserie chicken Shyla Watson is a digital news editor at PEOPLE. She has ...

A man who discovered a DNA sample on a 100-year-old shawl says it has identified the real Jack the Ripper. Researcher Russell Edwards claims he has found a '100 percent' DNA match with the ...