Scientists are learning how to temporarily reshape materials by nudging their internal quantum rhythms instead of blasting them with extreme lasers. By harnessing excitons, short-lived energy pairs ...

Biologists and engineers have joined forces to build a new robot bat that’s helping us understand how real bats use ...

A new social-science paper delivers a surprisingly unsettling result: give dozens of expert teams the same data and the same ...

In a quiet corner of a physics building in Australia, a glass funnel filled with a tar-like substance has been dripping so ...

Koch, who studied vision, thought that by measuring people's brain responses as they looked at special optical illusions, ...

The best essay boils down to the strongest argument. So, if you find yourself struggling to come up with one, drop the ...

Even very slight environmental noise, such as microscopic vibrations or magnetic field fluctuations a hundred times smaller ...

Now, two unrelated-but-similar experiments confirm that, in a double-slit experiment, detection of a photon’s path (its ...

The former Maine CDC director's ability to explain complex topics with honesty and empathy is exactly what Maine needs.

This high school educator is engaging students with a mix of inquiry-based digital projects and hands-on activities.

Researchers at Princeton University have built a swarm of interconnected mini-robots that “bloom” like flowers in response to changing light levels in an office. According to their new paper published ...

Italian researchers have developed hybrid tree technology where each leaf generates 150 Volts of electricity, turning forests ...