Almost every month, Emory University physicist Justin Burton and his graduate students step out of the lab and bring loud, ...

Discover how Percy Spencer's chance encounter with a melted candy bar during WWII led to the invention of the microwave, ...

This video, which won the American Physical Society’s Milton van Dyke award, explains the foundations of this research. An evaporating droplet shrinks until it reaches a point at which it explodes ...

An underwater observatory recently detected a startlingly energetic cosmic neutrino. One possible cause involves a phenomenon that so far exists only in theory. By Dennis Overbye On Feb. 13, 2023, a ...

David Pogue is a six-time Emmy winner for his stories on "CBS Sunday Morning," where he's been a correspondent since 2002. Pogue hosts the CBS News podcast "Unsung Science." He's also a New York Times ...

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A 17-year-old whiz kid whose Irvine home was at the center of an FBI and hazmat squad probe last week said the search was all because of his science experiment. Federal authorities said they were ...

The Science Museum of Minnesota keeps its doors open past the bedtimes of its usual visitors for “Museum Nights” every Friday, an event aimed at adults to rediscover their love for science. With live ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Everyone knows it's cold it is outside. The entire Philadelphia region has remained below freezing for the seventh day in a row, with little relief in sight. But we are tapping ...

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John Seiler was strolling across Virginia Tech’s campus with his students Thursday morning when something stopped them in their tracks: a sweet cherry tree with an unusual jagged scar running along ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — You may have read about this viral story online – a warning to be wary of “exploding trees”. But is it really something to be concerned about? While there is some science explaining ...