While the cold weather may deter many from going outside, others like to take advantage of the freezing temperatures and test out different science experiments. From blowing frozen bubbles to throwing ...

A record of scientific ambition at its worst and best, where progress, power and ethics collided and changed global rules ...

Nuclear weapons tests were once a regular occurrence, but most countries haven’t tested in decades, following the adoption of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty in 1996. Now, that moratorium ...

How do skateboarders seemingly defy gravity? How do gymnasts flip in the air? They have skill — and, as a Times interactive explored, an understanding of the laws of motion, physics and energy. By ...

The motion of snakes has long fascinated humans: they undulate, they sidewind, they crawl, they even fly. Together with herpetologists, researchers in the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering ...

This will come as a surprise to no one, but exercise is really good for us. But why it works and how it works are far less ...

The twentieth century brought incredible scientific breakthroughs. It also brought some of the strangest and darkest experiments ever whispered about. While most scientists worked with microscopes and ...