When two black holes merge or two neutron stars collide, gravitational waves can be generated. They spread at the speed of ...

Isaac Newton lounging beneath an apple tree, suddenly getting bonked on the head by falling fruit, and boom—gravity is discovered. It's the story repeated in classrooms, cartoons, and cocktail parties ...

The science pros at TKOR show how to make a gravity puzzle that tricks the brain.

People often see science as a world apart: cool, rational and untouched by persuasion or performance. In this view, ...

Holiday cheer met hands-on learning Saturday when Jason Lindsey — better known as “Mr. Science” — brought festive science fun to the Public Library of Youngstown and Mahoning County. Nearly 50 ...

When you listen to music, many brain regions fire up to help you analyze the sound and make sense of the emotions you feel in ...

A new acoustic levitation technique combines sound waves and electric charge to control multiple particles without physical ...

Even worse, the orbit of Mars is elliptical (think of a slight oval rather than a perfect circle), which means that sometimes ...

From a particle smasher encircling the moon to an “impossible” laser, five scientists reveal the experiments they would run ...

A Star Trek–inspired idea by Miguel Alcubierre kicked off decades of theory and experiments as scientists pursue plausible ...

How does our ego make us reject perfectly good ideas? Read about the Not-Invented-Here syndrome, and a place called ...

Gravity and motion make time pass faster on Mars than Earth, reshaping navigation, communication, and future crewed missions.