Dark matter and dark energy are mysteries that have confounded scientists for decades, even though they comprise 95% of the ...

Nuno Castel-Branco is a historian of science at the University of Oxford and writes the Stories of Science newsletter. Last month, a bipartisan congressional spending bill cut funds for NASA’s Mars ...

Playing a complex guitar solo ought to be impossible. To elicit the desired torrent of notes, the fingers of one hand must move nimbly around the fretboard, while the other hand plucks the strings, in ...

For years, the story of the so called “real life hobbits” has fascinated scientists and the public alike. Standing just over three feet tall and living on the Indonesian island of Flores, Homo ...

Custom books feature girls as STEM heroes, aiming to build their confidence and encourage them to pursue their scientific ...

A new podcast from Lost Women of Science tells the story of Katharine Burr Blodgett, who invented nonreflective glass while working at General Electric, but who is often forgotten. The series, called ...

A study analyzing 40,000 stories reveals what Aristotle intuited centuries ago - narratives follow a common, predictable structure consisting of three key elements. Using computer analysis, ...

Some 100 feet below the ocean's surface, Stephen Hawking peeked through the circular porthole of a submarine and saw the brilliant blue tropical water. It was March 2006, and the famous astrophysicist ...