A surprising experiment shows how certain rocks can bend instead of breaking, revealing unexpected physical properties and ...

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Politics Honors students fanned out across Charlottesville to conduct research on voter attitudes and behavior.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is dismantling the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, moving to ...

Immense progress in gene-editing, drug discovery and conservation are just some of the reasons to be cheerful about 2025.

The bipartisan bill would create a national network of six remotely accessible programmable cloud laboratories for academic ...

OpenAI’s new FrontierScience benchmark shows AI advancing in physics, chemistry, and biology—and exposes the challenge of ...

New laboratory studies could shed light on a rock containing potential signs of alien life that’s stranded on Mars ...

Physicists have found a clever way to detect the elusive Unruh effect without extreme accelerations. By using atoms that emit light cooperatively between mirrors, acceleration subtly shifts when a ...

Winter means a lot of indoor time, and I've learned that science experiments are a lifesaver on those long, cold days. The best part? You don't need anything fancy. Baking soda, vinegar, food ...

Norbert Holtkamp has been appointed as the new director of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, effective Jan. 12, 2026.

From the tragedy of the space shuttle Columbia disaster in 2003 to the now-routine return of commercial spacecraft, heat shields—formally called thermal protection systems—are critical for protecting ...