Mark Prausnitz in his lab. “While I may be the focal point, it’s not a recognition of me as an individual. It’s a recognition ...

The simple experiment setup. Image via Wiki Commons. In 1927, physicist Thomas Parnell poured hot pitch into a funnel at the ...

Students tackled their hottest scientific questions in the lead-up to Teton Science Schools' science fair last week. A ...

Physicists know that their elegant theoretical description of forces and particles – the Standard Model – must be incomplete, ...

In the new experiment, physicists used Rydberg atoms. These are atoms that have been excited, so their electrons move onto ...

As SNS celebrates two decades of discovery, its story is far from complete. Building on the foundation of reliability, power ...

The one-day event will feature explosive science demos, including liquid nitrogen blasts, balloon explosions and fast-paced ...

For the first time, scientists have watched a subduction zone literally fall apart beneath the ocean floor. Using advanced ...

A visually entertaining look at inflatable toys being filled to their limits, showing how pressure and air expansion lead to ...

The Curiosity rover conducted a first-of-its kind experiment on Mars, detecting organic molecules that have never been ...

The Action Lab explores a physics experiment about trapping an electron in a box and what it can reveal about light and ...

According to our current understanding of the universe, equal amounts of matter and antimatter should have been produced in the Big Bang, then both annihilated. However, the universe is dominated by ...