The U.S. National Science Foundation’s $1.5 billion X-Labs call for agile new entities to tackle pressing, narrow problems ...

Scientists observe bumblebees rolling a ball underneath a flower to get sugar, showing complex problem-solving abilities.

Foucault’s pendulum experiment led to an increase in the public’s interest in both real-life science and science fiction.

Scientists combined 44,000 citizen science photos, experiments, and genetic data to understand how prairie grasses adapt to ...

Scientists are building autonomous robotic labs powered by artificial intelligence. The goal, they say, is for these robots ...

Jace’s interest in marine biology may stem from his frequent visits to the Da Vinci Science Center, just down the street from ...

The neutrino “fog” is beginning to materialize. Lightweight subatomic particles called neutrinos have begun elbowing their way into the data of experiments not designed to spot them. Two experiments, ...

A new book covering the history of scientific inquiry invites us to marvel at the elegance of experimentation. Some philosophers have argued that “beauty” in science stands as a proxy for truth. Many ...

An experiment seven years in the making has uncovered new insights into the nature of consciousness and challenges two prominent, competing scientific theories: Integrated Information Theory (IIT) and ...

Sometimes science needs to go big. From telescopes spanning the globe to particle accelerators that would take over 24 hours to walk around, these experiments are among the largest ever conducted.