Traditional solar fails in the windswept north. Two Swedish inventors are betting on aerodynamic resilience to solve the ...

The tobacco industry rebranded a brutally addictive drug from deadly to desirable—and the longer-term health consequences may ...

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Steve Spangler returns for Jordan's last day to demonstrate his exploding Pringles can science experiment. Trump says US will ...

Mars, often depicted as a barren red planet, is far from lifeless. With its thin atmosphere and dusty surface, it is an ...

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A first-of-its-kind space telescope could soon launch into orbit and potentially chart a new path forward for astronomy.

You can't see, feel, hear, taste or smell them, but tiny particles from space are constantly raining down on us.

Nuclear weapons haven’t been tested in the United States since 1992. Find out why, and what could happen if the hiatus ends.

Check one, two; check one, two; is this thing on? Over on The Public Domain Review [Lucas Thompson] takes us for a spin through sound, as it was in Britain around and through the 1800s. The article ...

Scientists are uncovering new clues that a cosmic explosion may have rocked Earth at the end of the last ice age. At major Clovis-era sites, researchers found shocked quartz—evidence of intense heat ...

GREENVILLE, N.C. (WITN) - As kids get ready for winter break, there are many ways to keep them learning at home. One option: science experiments! Covey Denton has some ideas to bring the science lab ...