Physics is filled with mysteries – and, believe it or not, gravity remains one of them. We rely on gravity to explain things large and small. But at a fundamental level, we still don’t fully ...

Gabriel Gomes believes the future of chemistry is as much about flasks and fume hoods as it is about code. A chemical engineer at Carnegie Mellon University, Gomes works at the intersection of ...

The Russian Sleep Experiment is a viral creepypasta describing a supposed Soviet test where prisoners were kept awake using experimental gas. As days passed, the subjects allegedly descended into ...

Working in strict secrecy, a government scientist in Norway built a machine capable of emitting powerful pulses of microwave energy and, in an effort to prove such devices are harmless to humans, in ...

This week, I was standing in line at a coffee shop when I noticed the woman in front of me wearing the most unapologetically joyful pair of yellow boots. The kind of yellow that skips right past muted ...