In 1833, hundreds of thousands of shooting stars inspired songs, prophecies and a crowdsourced research paper on the origins ...

Yale physicist Eduardo H. da Silva Neto led an experiment that supports the existence of a new type of superconductor.

A Florida museum is seeking to gather science enthusiasts of all ages to set the Guinness World Record for the most people flying paper rockets simultaneously.

If you’re reading this, you have likely received letters from me before ... an investigation of his vitamin company and the bad science that was at its foundation. In the years since, we ...

An international collaboration of scientists including two from Purdue University’s College of Science have recently ...

Sixteenth century Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe laid the framework for modern cosmology without ever using a telescope.

For almost a century, Science News journalists have covered advances in science, medicine and technology for the general public, including the 1925 Scopes “monkey” trial, the advent of the ...

Guest: Corey Brettschneider is a professor of constitutional law and politics at Brown University. He is the author of The Oath and the Office and his latest, The Presidents and the People: Five ...

It goes like this: “Big whirls have little whirls, That feed on their ... the environment and the importance of science to our lives. This story does not necessarily represent the position ...

There is some guilt too, at letting the critter-friendly yard with its native plants, old lilac bushes (not native, but grandfathered or maybe grandmothered in), chokecherry trees and a reasonably ...

To the editor: The Times’ article regarding the abuse of the walk-on athletics system at USC ignores the accepted notion that these marginal academic students would be acceptable if they were ...

We can do better. Fuentes and Little are the candidates to help get us there. We encourage readers to express their views about public issues. Letters to the editor are subject to editing for ...