The Curiosity rover snapped a series of peculiar polygons that look suspiciously like giant fossilized reptile scales.

The two teens huddled around their science teacher, eyes wide as he held a tiny solar panel beneath a fluorescent lamp. As light glinted off the device, a miniature, solar-powered fan whirred to life.

A compass always points north—or does it? Magnets normally maintain a stable direction of magnetization, pointing from south ...

A new method of identifying bears will lead to an increased understanding of their behavior, movements across the landscape ...

How bad is it? Well, water wil be the central theme at the Davos summit this year. See why. The good news: coordinated shifts ...

Drill deep and drill differently. That's what's needed to exploit the nearly bottomless promise of geothermal energy in the ...

We’re in a perilous moment for water. But the Church Sampler is one of the many devices scientists can use help us make ...

An unusually mild winter followed by a wet spring made last year one of the worst in a decade for Pennsylvania soybean ...

A team of physicists has pushed the limits of quantum control by cooling the rotational motion of a nanoscale object to its ...

Anger and frustration is growing in Russia over government restrictions on the internet that have disrupted daily life, hurt ...

The Home-Scale Forest Garden is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet, Roku, Samsung ...

A scanning electron microscope image of a nickel nano-architecture fabricated by the Greer lab (scale bar = 5 microns). Image credits: Greer lab. In the world of structural engineering, smaller is ...