The basics of photosynthesis are something that every student learns in school: carbon dioxide, water and light in; oxygen ...

When laboratory mice step out of their plastic cages and into real soil, their behavior changes so dramatically that it ...

Many of the early exhibitions were more typical science-museum exhibitions—hands-on experiments, things you do with your hands, learning through interaction. There was an exhibition about food. There ...

Why did humans evolve the eyes we have today? While scientists can't go back in time to study the environmental pressures ...

Plasma, the electrically charged state of matter that lights up stars and neon signs, has just revealed a subtle effect that ...

Researchers found that lab mice that were released into a large, enclosed field were almost immediately less anxious.

Thomas Paine published “Common Sense” in 1776 as an argument for independence. Americans across the political spectrum have ...

Earth’s inner core has long puzzled scientists because seismic waves move through it unevenly. Compressional waves from ...

The text is now best known for introducing “Pascal’s Law” or “Principle,” that any change of pressure in an enclosed incompressible fluid (like water) is transmitted equally to all points within the ...

Long before perovskite solar cells began smashing efficiency records and transforming the future of clean energy, their ...

The artist’s sentient autonomous cars are endowed with intelligence but stripped of agency, drifting through a ruined society ...

A research team from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU), and Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) has succeeded in exciting the atomic ...