Our brain’s evolution makes it nearly impossible to commit to a multi-generational mission like interstellar travel, says one evolutionary anthropologist. However, humans have worked successfully on ...

In this video, I attempt to create a giant glow stick using safe, high-level principles behind how real glow sticks work.

Researchers built a silver-grooved chip that channels laser energy into nanometer-spaced peaks, beating the diffraction limit and aiding light-matter studies.

TOLEDO, Ohio — If you looked up at the sky Tuesday or Wednesday night, you might’ve seen a stunning glow ripple across the ...

A newly developed mouse model enables real-time visualization of RNA Polymerase II (RNAP2) during DNA transcription, as ...

Climate change and rising authoritarian threats put our future at risk. Bill McKibben discusses his book Here Comes the Sun and explains how solar energy, local action, and civic engagement can drive ...

Seven high school seniors from Westchester are taking their research to the national stage after applying to one of the ...

Using CERN’s Super Proton Synchrotron, researchers generated plasma fireballs to simulate blazar jets. The beams stayed ...

This summer, a small number of invasive Mediterranean fruit flies were detected in San Jose. In response, the state started ...

Researchers have identified a previously unknown “hook-like” domain in the tail of the kinesin-2 motor protein that explains how these molecular machines select the right cargo inside cells.

Joseph Wright of Derby was one of the first people to document public scientific lectures during the Enlightenment period.