In 1543, Copernicus boldly proposed the heliocentric model, asserting that the Earth revolved around the sun. Despite facing ...

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of Short Wave about "scuba-diving" lizards, a trick to turn a mouse's skin transparent and whether finger counting helps kids' math skills.

A new study co-led by the Smithsonian and the University of Arizona offers the most detailed glimpse yet of how Earth’s ...

A long-awaited calculation of the W boson’s mass agrees with theory, contradicting a previous anomaly that had raised the ...

Scientists of the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) in Kiruna and Umeå University find that under certain conditions ...

A team of scientists at NASA have confirmed how Mars' 'spider' formations are carved by carbon dioxide. They were first ...

W hen the actor Christopher Reeve, who’d been gravely injured in a horse-riding accident in 1995, died in 2004, Democrats wasted no time turning the actor’s paralysis into a political talking point.

The Northern Lights are one of the many natural phenomena that make living Up North so special.The Northern Lights, the holy ...

Two new artificial intelligence institutions within the National Science Foundation will be dedicated to developing AI ...

Researchers at the European Laboratory for Nonlinear Spectroscopy (LENS) have developed a novel experimental technique to ...

An experiment is helping scientists better understand the effects of space radiation on astronauts and space shuttles that ...