Learn how to build a simple solar cell at home using copper tape, plastic cups, and water. This step-by-step science experiment demonstrates how to harness solar energy to generate electricity.

It's a simple premise; movement is medicine—not just a mantra for gym buffs and marathon runners. It's a prescription for a ...

One day at an Idaho hospital, half the newborns Dr. Tom Patterson saw didn’t get the vitamin K shots that have been given to babies for decades to prevent potentially deadly bleeding. On another ...

I’d eaten this cereal for 10 years,” by 2016 said Julie Chapon, and she considered it to be healthy. “When I checked the ...

STAT interviews with 30 respondents brought the unmistakably human impacts of federal science policy into sharp focus. Here are three of those stories.

Peter Badge. Mathematics often feels like a collection of isolated islands. Each one operates with its own rules, and building bridges between them is notoriously difficult. Today, the Norwegian ...

Healthy daily habits may do more than support physical health, they may also help the mind stay adaptable when stress strikes ...

The Archimedes screw, an ancient Greek invention for lifting water. Learn about its origins, how it works, and its modern applications.

A One-of-a-Kind Coffin From the Roman Iron Age The coffin is remarkable for what it is and for the simple fact that it survived. It is the only preserved wooden sarcophagus of its kind from the Roman ...

There’s a shocking lack of understanding of the physics underlying this commonplace phenomenon, but researchers are on the case.

An American physicist and Canadian computer scientist received the A.M. Turing Award on Wednesday for their groundbreaking work on quantum key cryptography.

Even after airstrikes end, Iran's nuclear threat looms and diplomacy may be too late. Whenever the United States and Israel stop bombing Iran, they will have to figure out how to deal with the ...