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 ...

Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system.

Discover 9 science museums in India every curious traveller should visit, from Bengaluru’s Visvesvaraya Industrial and Technological Museum to Kolkata’s Science City, offering interactive exhibits, ...

Polypropylene and polyethylene are two durable and affordable plastics commonly used as packaging materials, snack wrappers, ...

Moon hummus could be on the horizon after scientists grew chickpeas in lunar dust for the first time. The Myles variety of the legume was planted in simulated moon soil based on samples brought back ...

Touching your tongue to frozen metal must be a rite of passage if you're a five-year-old boy from a cold place. It's possibly more irresistible than hopping in mud puddles or sampling a newly frosted ...

(Karetoria/Moment/Getty Images) Plastic pollution is seeping into the Earth, into wildlife, and into our bodies, and a new ...

In recent months, Ireland became an associate member of Cern, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research. This is a very welcome development for physicists, engineers and computer scientists ...

For the first time, the Tibet ASγ Experiment has successfully measured magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence on scales below one parsec (approximately 3.3 light-years) within the gamma-ray halo ...

In 1921, Otto Loewi woke from a dream with the idea for an experiment that proved nerves communicate using chemicals, not just electricity. By showing that stimulating one frog’s heart released a ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. eats steak for breakfast, and has been accused by family members of blending up mice and chickens to feed his hawks and cutting off a dead whale’s head to bring it home. But he ...

Researchers reveal why trace amounts of alloy added to some catalysts keep them performing better over time. The study ...