History is a story that we tell ourselves about how we got to the present, and if China soon sits atop the sciences, history ...

Microplastics are more than a micro problem. And how to avoid microplastics might just be an even bigger one. It’s been 21 years since a paper in the journal Science showed the environmental ...

Rock ballads (60-80 BPM) entrain infant heartbeats, putting babies to sleep ~35% faster. Low-frequency pink-noise textures mimic the womb and mask household sounds for steady sleep. Predictable, ...

A decades-old superconducting mystery just took a surprising turn. Strontium ruthenate, a material that conducts electricity with zero resistance at low temperatures, has long puzzled scientists with ...

37 seconds into the launch of Apollo 12 the astronauts saw a flash of white light and were jolted. The Saturn V rocket had been struck by lightning! In this science demonstration, middle school ...