Science doesn’t have to be complicated to spark curiosity. With simple household items, you can turn your kitchen or living room into a mini-lab for your kids. These easy, hands-on experiments keep ...

One summer day, 8-year-old Hugo Deans spotted a cluster of tiny, BB-sized spheres (galls) near an ant nest in his backyard.

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

Fusion power startup Inertia Enterprises said on Tuesday that it has signed three agreements with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) to help bring the laser-based fusion reactor ...

In the early 1960s, a deceptively simple question took shape inside a laboratory at Yale University: how far would an ordinary person go if instructed by an authority figure to harm someone else? The ...

Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts will host the Massachusetts Region I Middle School Science Fair from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday, April 15, in the Amsler Campus Center Gymnasium. About 110 middle ...

Conducting research is hard; confirming the results is, too. And artificial intelligence isn’t yet ready to help, a major new study finds. By Carl Zimmer Carl Zimmer has reported on replication in ...

Fielding frantic faculty emails and panicked texts was not how I had hoped my 2025 would begin. Little did I imagine that my role as a research dean at a medical school would be taken over by ...

For students at a small school like Heritage Hall Christian, the opportunity to present their scientific research alongside peers from nearby counties can be invaluable. “Participating at the regional ...

The bright colors of butterfly wings, the sweet aromas of flowers, and the euphonious melodies of songbirds all evolved as signals that help individuals propagate, yet humans also find these very same ...

OpenAI’s GPT can summarize research papers and make predictions—but can it do science? Can it generate hypotheses, design experiments, interpret results and iterate? Last summer researchers at OpenAI ...

FLINT, MI -- Middle and high school students from across mid-Michigan will showcase their science and engineering projects at the 70th annual Flint Regional Science & Engineering Fair on Friday, March ...