Step into the hidden science lab in your kitchen with five easy experiments that explain refraction, surface tension, ...

Mars, often depicted as a barren red planet, is far from lifeless. With its thin atmosphere and dusty surface, it is an ...

For decades, restoring sight after severe eye damage sat firmly in the realm of science fiction. Now a wave of converging ...

Now, two unrelated-but-similar experiments confirm that, in a double-slit experiment, detection of a photon’s path (its ...

Liquids and solutions may look simple, but on the molecular scale they are constantly shifting and reorganizing. When sugar dissolves in water, each sugar molecule quickly becomes surrounded by fast ...

Controlling light is an important technological challenge—not just at the large scale of optics in microscopes and telescopes ...

Nearly everything in the universe is made of mysterious dark matter and dark energy, yet we can’t see either of them directly ...

The scientists behind the MAGIS-100 experiment aim to use state-of-the-art lasers to shed light on ultralight dark matter.

Einstein’s claim that the speed of light is constant has survived more than a century of scrutiny—but scientists are still ...

What if “looking healthy” eventually includes light that no one can see? Experiments that image living tissues in near-total ...