The science experimenters at TKOR showcase several creative experiments that reveal surprising behaviors of everyday alkaline ...

The science experimenters at TKOR construct small crackle balls designed to produce sharp popping effects for visual ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising twist in how bacteria share genes—including those that spread antibiotic resistance. Tiny virus-like particles called gene transfer agents (GTAs), once ancient ...

A bizarre, record-breaking neutrino detected in 2023 may have originated from an exploding primordial black hole—a relic from the early universe. Scientists suggest these black holes could carry a ...

Perry Samson was helping students conduct field experiments on supercell storms in Kansas in 2008 when one suddenly turned into a tornado and dragged him in.

A knot doesn't just fall apart, it snaps. Engineers harnessed that energy release to create tiny soft robots that leap meters ...

In “Why Do We Exist?” Hakeem Oluseyi explores how life may emerge to move energy through matter—and why Earth is the perfect ...

Mark Prausnitz in his lab. “While I may be the focal point, it’s not a recognition of me as an individual. It’s a recognition ...

Two billion years after the cosmos banged into existence, a mysterious force known as dark energy began shoving space outward ...

South African cellist Abel Selaocoe curates a weekend of music, stories, workshops and dance at Barbican. Mbuso Khoza, ...

In the early hours of 26 April 1986, Reactor 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded after a planned safety test went catastrophically wrong. The Chernobyl disaster was the result of a chain ...

Before four Artemis II astronauts strapped into their Orion capsule to soar toward the moon, a tiny bit of each of them was already on board. Incubated in a small triangular container stowed on the ...