Science

On Monday, astronauts sampled their crop, red romaine lettuce, for the first time.

One of NASA's top scientists told members of Congress that the space agency is on the "cusp" of ...

Will science follow where intuition leads?

Dr. Robert Lanza, one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people, believes science must recognize the importance of ...

Ethical warning bells went off in April when Chinese researchers reported they had experimented with 85 defective human ...

NASA scientists are intrigued about a strange feature on Pluto’s largest moon Charon that one member has described ...

SAN FRANCISCO—Thirty years after its founder's death, the Exploratorium thrives more than ever. The initial idea of combining ...

Cannibalism isn’t what it used to be.

A lot of people are vaguely aware of what quantum physics is all about. Let's get a clearer ...

What portion of "general knowledge" comes from Wikipedia these days? Should we be worried?

According to the second law of thermodynamics, the universe is doomed. But there's hope.

In many kinds of scientific experiments, researchers must protect against the experimenter effect. Scientists conducting experiments may give ...

Dr. Otto Loewi had two dreams over the course of two consecutive nights in which the design for ...

While quick and simple "tests" are often highly publicized, the more technical data that could support the existence ...

Dr. William Tiller thinks the superficial dictionary definition of consciousness is insufficient. It is more than simply "the ...

Some discoveries fade into obscurity, while other blaze a new trail the moment they’re published.

At the University of Virginia, a space is given to the scientific investigation of strange phenomena that challenge ...

The Opah, or moonfish, lives deep below the ocean's surface and uses its unique features to generate and ...

Researchers have made a breakthrough in understanding exactly how ancient dinosaurs evolved into modern birds.

A BBC documentary shows scientists revealing that most of the 800 ancient Egyptian animal mummies they scanned do ...

Some elements of out-of-body experiences can be traced to the brain, but not all, say researchers.

Students who physically experience scientific concepts understand them more deeply and score better on science tests, according to ...

Medieval scientists claimed to have created little people. The ethics of creating artificial life has long been debated!

Paleontologists have recently announced the discovery of a new winged dinosaur in China named “Yi qi” meaning “strange ...

Antarctica is a cold, largely barren place, but researchers report they have come upon a previously unknown place ...

Scientists recently announced that they have identified the second possible specimen of the species commonly known as 'pocket ...

A deep-sea exploration crew was totally surprised to see a rare sperm whale during their expedition.