A researcher who studied fingernail growth and a group that explored whether painting zebralike stripes on cows reduced fly bites are among the winners of this year's Ig Nobels.

It’s a little complicated to weigh a dying person on a hospital bed, but that didn’t matter to Duncan MacDougall. In the ...

The water off Santa Monica is going pink, and it's not because a certain blockbuster film is getting a sequel. The reason is more scientific. UCLA is conducting an experiment on the breakwater that ...

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Deep beneath southern China, JUNO has launched one of the most ambitious neutrino experiments in history. With its massive 20,000-ton liquid scintillator detector now operational, it’s poised to ...

Thought experiments — asking students to imagine outcomes — can be just as powerful for learning science as hands-on activities, according to new research from Associate Professor Elizabeth Bonawitz ...

The cult horror classic “The Evil Dead” will receive a live-to-film concert treatment in downtown Los Angeles this fall, with an exclusive underground haunted attraction built into the experience. The ...

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In a first-of-its-kind experiment, doctors in China transplanted a lung from a genetically modified pig into a brain-dead person. Similar experiments involving brain-dead patients have previously ...