Watch as we take an Indian village experiment to the extreme, charging a human body with half a million volts using ...

Scientific findings are in the news. They're cited on food packages and beverage labels. They are discussed in podcasts and argued over by politicians and pundits. And each finding sits within a ...

Scroll through social media long enough and a pattern emerges. Pause on a post questioning climate change or taking a hard ...

A man was reported to be outside a store on Park Avenue at 10:17 a.m. and was described as possibly homeless. The man was making the person “very uncomfortable,” according to public police logs. The ...

An experiment to quantify the amount of the universe’s lightest element in Earth’s core suggests that the planet’s water has mostly been here since the beginning ...

Networks of molecules in our body behave as though they have goals and desires. Understanding this phenomenon could solve the ...

Hydrogen reserves in Earth’s core large enough to supply at least nine oceans may influence processes on the surface today.

Picture all of Earth’s oceans, which cover about 70% of the planet and are mostly made of hydrogen. Now multiply that by nine ...

A pair of new studies suggest that key steps toward life’s chemistry may begin long before planets exist. Experiments simulating interstellar space show that simple amino acids can link into peptides, ...

Research findings are available online in the Astrophysical Journal. The original story “ Student made cosmic dust in the lab ...

The idea of relative motion is an aspect of the theory of relativity (strictly, it’s Galilean relativity, rather than ...

As darkness retreats and flotation tanks gain popularity, a UCSD professor examines how “sensory deprivation” experiments ...