Chinese politician Feng Dao served as prime minister under 11 emperors across five dynasties. Criticism that he was a traitor ...

Nicolaus Copernicus, the 16th-century astronomer whose findings were condemned by the Roman Catholic Church as heretical, was reburied by Polish priests as a hero on Saturday, nearly 500 years after ...

Nicolaus Copernicus was the first to demonstrate that the earth orbited the sun, upsetting the prevailing notion that the earth was the center of the cosmos. But the Polish astronomer died in ...

His theories may have revolutionised the way we think about the world, but the face of Copernicus has since been lost to time. Nicolaus Copernicus, a Polish astronomer born in 1473, revolutionised the ...

One of the more curious legends in popular history of science is that Nicolaus Copernicus was a Catholic priest. And Galileo gets the blame for launching this little myth. But the founder of the ...

Summer broke global heat records for the second straight year, scientists have confirmed — putting 2024 firmly on track to be the hottest year in recorded history. The period between June and August — ...

The European Union's climate monitor warns temperature data from 2025 shows global warming is accelerating. (CN) — This year is on track to become the second-warmest on record globally, according to ...

Members of Warminska Grupa Eksploracyjna or Warmian Exploration Group, an amateur archaeology organization in Poland, discovered a 500-year-old compass that may have belonged to Renaissance astronomer ...

Nicolas Copernicus is a scientific icon. He, of course, discovered that the Earth revolves around the Sun. Copernicus also wrote a little known essay entitled On the Minting of Money. Last month, ...

It doesn't happen often, but there are times when a single book turns the world on its head. Isaac Newton's Principia unraveled the mystery of gravity. Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species ...