The parabolic flight travels up and down several times on a trajectory resembling an arch, providing 22 seconds of zero ...

Freshman Charlotte Huang and Megan Atkinson, a junior, are part of an elite team of 12 at St. Francis, interviewed and chosen ...

Physicists using near-absolute-zero detectors have reached unprecedented sensitivity in the hunt for light dark matter. A ...

Many of us tackled the egg drop experiment in science class at some point in our childhood. But this former NASA engineer took it to a whole other level. The stratosphere, to be specific. And just ...

At the end of the 1600s, Newton proposed the universal law of gravitation: that every particle attracts every other particle in the universe with a force (F) determined by their masses (M) and the ...

Scientists have taken a major step toward solving a long-standing mystery in particle physics, by finding no sign of the ...

Robert Crease’s book is a bargain: you get two good things for the price of one. First, you have a stimulating series of essays about the history of science, each of which describes a landmark ...

From a telescope network that spans much of the globe to a psychology study that spans 67 countries, here are the biggest science experiments on the planet. When you purchase through links on our site ...

Darwin’s “seed salting” experiments were aimed at determining, first, how long seeds might retain their vitality after exposure to saltwater, and second, how long they can float versus sink in ...

Nuclear physicists analyzed data for a demonstration experiment in France that has achieved record precision for a specialized detector material. Nuclear physicists affiliated with the U.S. Department ...