To be awarded an official English Heritage plaque, the proposed recipient (nominated by members of the public) must have died at least 20 years ago and will only be awarded a plaque if there is a ...

UCLA doctoral student Yilin Wong noticed that some tiny dots had appeared on one of her samples, which had been accidentally ...

Could lumpy metallic rocks in the deepest, darkest reaches of the ocean be making oxygen in the absence of sunlight?

1. The accidental discovery of X in 1964 — even though its existence had been predicted in 1948 — set off a series of ...

Curiosity about a mistake that left tiny dots on a germanium wafer with evaporated metal films led to the discovery of beautiful spiral patterns etched on the surface of the semiconductor by a ...