Early scientific theories—such as those explaining basic phenomena like gravity, burning, and the movement of molecules in ...

The Ig Nobel Prizes will be announced this Thursday. The awards are given for scientific research that sparks humor first and ...

Catarina made landfall near Santa Catarina state on March 28 with estimated 100-mph winds, damaging or destroying tens of ...

When the quark hypothesis was first proposed more than 10 years ago, there were supposed to be three kinds of quark. The ...

A new study reveals how a hidden human bias has shaped centuries of scientific errors, from Galileo to modern research.

Jesse Gelsinger died after receiving a gene therapy treatment to treat a liver disease. The death sparked an investigation ...

When LIGO detected gravitational waves unleashed from two colliding black holes for the first time in science history, it set ...

Rhinoplasty is one of the most common facial plastic surgeries performed today. And it turns out, the ability to reconstruct ...

Astrophysicist Hakeem Oluseyi hosts Particles of Thought, a new science podcast with leading experts on space, biology and discovery from GBH and the producers of NOVA.

And cultures all around the world have different categories of what is and isn’t breakfast food. The Wikipedia page for ...

A poster-size version of the front page of the very first issue of this magazine hangs in the lobby of Springer Nature’s New ...

Roper Mountain Science Center is celebrating 40 years of providing educational experiences in Greenville. The facility is a result of a public-private partnership, with most buildings funded by ...