One morning, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge began bouncing up and down and twisting to and fro before ultimately collapsing into ...

“Imagine that the earth has been watched over the aeons by an extremely patient extraterrestrial observer. Nothing, save a little hydrogen and helium, leaves the planet. And then, less than 20 years ...

In the autumn of 1577, a bright light blazed across the skies of Europe, Asia, and the Americas, igniting wonder, fear, and a revolution ...

From ancient philosophers who saw the heart as the seat of the soul to modern cardiologists mapping electrical impulses, ...

Science historians have a new resource they can tap to better understand the early days of molecular biology. The nonprofit Science History Institute (SHI) this week added a collection known as the ...

On May 7, 1981, influential physicist Richard Feynman gave a keynote speech at Caltech. Feynman opened his talk by politely rejecting the very notion of a keynote speech, instead saying that he had ...

This spooky season, we’re stepping inside Chicago’s International Museum of Surgical Science, where medicine meets mystery in the city’s Gold Coast. The museum blends science, history, and spookiness, ...

On the afternoon of Oct. 9, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell was in Boston when he had a three-hour chat with his assistant and fellow inventor, Thomas Watson. It would not have been noteworthy — except ...

The National Museum of Nuclear Science and History offers ‘Science is Everywhere’ camps. The camps are educational, immersive and align with Albuquerque Public School breaks. Students in Kindergarten ...

“When the quark hypothesis was first proposed more than 10 years ago, there were supposed to be three kinds of quark. The revised version of the theory requires 12 kinds. In the whimsical terminology ...