Explore the fascinating world of physics with three captivating science demonstrations. Watch a water balloon pop in slow motion, revealing how surface tension holds its shape. See magnetic forces at ...

It can be easy to get sucked into social media for hours on end. Funny, cartoony science videos may be especially interesting ...

Researchers have recreated the physics of extracting energy from a spinning black hole using a stationary device that ...

A backup version of Skylab was displayed when the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum opened 50 years ago. After ...

A polarizing Harvard astronomer known for splashy theories about alien visits has been tapped by the Trump administration to ...

When the pandemic hit, just like so many Americans, researcher Emma Harrington started working remotely. What shocked her most in those early days of COVID was how productive she was. Then a Ph.D.

In the summer of 1945, four days after Japan’s official surrender and a few weeks into the Atomic Age, President Harry Truman began floating the idea of an agency guided by “the free intelligence of ...

Set several hundred years in the future, The Expanse considers where humanity might end up heading, positing a scenario where the three major powers are the United Nations of Earth and Luna, the ...

Brandon Ogbunu is a computational biologist whose research investigates complex problems in epidemiology, genetics, and evolution; an associate professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary ...

You’ll sometimes hear scientists say that the most exciting thing in science is a discrepancy between a theory’s prediction and an experiment’s actual outcome, because it means you’ve discovered ...

There’s no easy shortcut to raising reading scores, a panel of experts told lawmakers during a congressional hearing on the “science of reading” on Tuesday. As the movement to align literacy ...