History shows we often dismiss what we don’t yet understand. Here’s why stigmatizing today’s uncomfortable questions may be holding humanity back.

Proven methods for teaching the readers who struggle most have been known for decades. Why do we often fail to use them?

Breaking down how nuclear explosions function using basic atomic physics and what causes their devastating power.

Science experiments that push materials and reactions to dramatic limits.

In the past year, two separate experiments in two different materials captured the same confounding scenario: the coexistence ...

A particle accelerator was used to create lightning in a bottle by charging a spinning acrylic tube with high-energy ...

The cloak can shield objects of any shape from unwanted noise, the researchers say. A destructive windstorm disrupted the power supply to more than a dozen atomic clocks that keep official time in the ...

Studying one of the simplest animals, Stanford's Prakash Lab uncovered how it folds itself into complex shapes—revealing new ...