A rule-breaking discovery by Dean Christopher Schuh reveals a new way to strengthen metal in extreme conditions.

A series of quantum physics experiments and theoretical papers now suggest that heat can flow spontaneously from a cold ...

After a quiz bowl changed her path, Dr. Zena Herrera returns to Arkansas to study how pregnancy stress and production shape ...

To store heat for days, weeks, or months, you need to trap the energy in the bonds of a molecule that can later release heat on demand. The approach to this particular chemistry problem is called ...

We are used to heat flowing from hot objects to cool ones, and never the other way round, but now researchers have found it is possible to pull off this trick in the strange realm of quantum mechanics ...

Shilpa Vijay is a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University. Her work explores how air moves over complex surfaces at ...

This video shows a controlled chemistry safety demonstration involving a strong oxidizer and automotive fluid. The point isn’t to replicate it - this combination can ignite and cause serious injury or ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – “Smitten with Science” at the Great Lakes Science Center blends candy, chemistry and creativity into a hands-on Valentine’s season experience designed to show kids that science can ...

Artemis II, the next mission in NASA’s Artemis program to explore the Moon, is scheduled to launch from Florida within the coming weeks. The mission will be the first crewed mission to the vicinity of ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. To the editor: The declining trust in science reported in Hayley Smith’s article came as no surprise to this ...

In 1927, Albert Einstein and Neils Bohr debated the nature of what’s known as complementarity—the idea that a photon’s dual wave-like and particle natures can’t be measured at the same time. Now, two ...

Notre Dame professor Katie Bibedorf, better known as Kate the Chemist, joins TODAY to share entertaining science experiments you can do at home with the kids including a snowstorm in a jar and a snow ...