The annual Ig Nobels, a satirical award for scientific achievement, are shifting for the first time from the United States to Europe due to concerns about attendees getting visas, organizers announced ...

Drug discovery is like molecular Tetris. Chemists snap atoms together, adjusting the pieces until everything fits and suddenly, a molecule makes a promising new medicine.

The search for materials that can conduct electricity at room temperature without losing energy is one of the greatest and most consequential challenges of modern physics: loss-free power transmission ...

At some point, most people have found themselves holding a tilted carton of milk or bottle of cooking oil, patiently waiting for the last drops to drip out. Now, physicists at Brown University have ...

Baltimore students explored everything but the baking soda volcano at the 2nd annual STEAM Extravaganza hosted at Baltimore Polytechnic Institute.

My travel schedule has become much busier recently, so I’ve been on a lot of flights. This inspired me to share what I think is a helpful metaphor. Please bear with me. In the late 1600s, Isaac Newton ...

The month-long celebration features hands-on experiments and challenges designed to show how science powers everyday ...

Mainstream chatbots presented varying levels of resistance to deliberate requests for fabrication, study finds ...

The science of motion can often surprise you - and an inertia experiment could have the opposite results from what you think!

Physicists at CERN have refined measurements of an extremely rare kaon decay seen only once in 10 billion events.

Systematic human inspection of the millions of source cutouts in the Hubble Legacy Archive is impossible – but artificial ...