Collaboration to Deliver Superconducting Magnets up to 30 Tesla Through this partnership with the MagLab, Quantum ...

Breakthrough ideas often appear when you least expect them—but studies show there’s more than one way to trigger a “eureka” moment.

Researchers reconstructed clutches of oviraptors, bird-like but flightless dinosaurs that lived between 70 and 66 million ...

Morgantown Elementary is a finalist for Sparklight's $2,500 Dream Bigger STEM grant, proposing VR-powered lessons, with community voting open online through March 18.

At a potluck, you ate the best chocolate chip cookie—golden-brown, thick and chewy. Unfortunately, you don't know who made the cookie to get the recipe from, so you decide to recreate it. Using ...

Recently, evidence derived from cognitive dissonance theory has been criticized, leading some to suggest that dissonance is not a thing. This post addresses those criticisms.

Science Textbook Controversies “In 1969 the California Board of Education issued new guidelines for the biology curriculum of the state’s public schools. The guidelines ...

A group of researchers are launching an effort to validate big scientific claims, with help from artificial intelligence.

Taking Tanzania as an example, this paper systematically analyzes the current situation and challenges of primary school science education in Africa through questionnaires and interviews. The study ...

Scientists studying a mysterious effect called cosmic birefringence—a subtle twist in the polarization of the universe’s oldest light—have developed a new way to reduce uncertainty in how it’s ...

Scientists observe a visible time crystal for the first time, revealing a phase of matter that repeats patterns through time.

The genomes of phages—viruses that infect bacteria—are largely composed of "dark matter": genes that encode proteins whose functions remain unknown. Less than four years ago, a team led by Prof. Rotem ...