A team of ocean and climate researchers is calling for a new generation of carefully designed ocean iron fertilization (OIF) ...

Measuring conditions in volatile clouds of superheated gases known as plasmas is central to pursuing greater scientific understanding of how stars, nuclear detonations and fusion energy work. For ...

Data from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) has revealed that particles retain spin signatures from the quantum vacuum.

New study reveals our closest relatives share the cognitive roots of imagination and pretense. Remember childhood tea parties ...

Can apes play pretend? Scientists use an imaginary tea party to find outAP Science WriterThe Associated PressNEW YORKA new experiment hints that an ape may be able to play pretend like humans do. Scie ...

Given that bonobos are endangered in their home of the Democratic Republic of Congo, he added, “My hope is that that kind of ...

Researchers offered a bonobo named Kanzi imaginary juice and grapes, presenting the tests as a kind of make-believe tea party ...

In October 1945, George Orwell responded to a letter from Mr J. Stewart Cook in the leftwing weekly newspaper Tribune calling for more science education. The call can hardly have ...

ELI BUNT OF Middlebury, left, Lyxi Cunningham of Waterbury and River Miles-Rowe of North Ferrisburgh are the team at the Lake ...

Surprisingly, a toxic compound found on Mars could help bacteria produce brick-like substances that could be used to assemble habitats on the Red Planet.

Little kids hosting make-believe tea parties is a fixture of childhood playtime and long presumed to be exclusively a human ...

Calais Weber Biery was among eight people burned in a lab fire at Western Reserve Academy in 2006. That horrific moment ...