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

When a full moon peeks just above the horizon, it appears enormous. This is a curious phenomenon, as when it is at this ...

Residents of Russia's Sakhalin region were treated to a surreal sight recently: what looked like two suns rising side by side in the morning sky. The .

Researchers in the US have uncovered evidence suggesting that Thomas Edison may have accidentally ...

Einstein’s claim that the speed of light is constant has survived more than a century of scrutiny—but scientists are still daring to test it. Some theories of quantum gravity suggest light might ...

In 2023, a team of physicists from Sandia National Laboratories announced a major discovery: a way to steer LED light. If ...

The double slit experiment reveals that observing light changes its behavior, making it act as both a wave and a particle.

In rethinking whether AI is sentient, we are asking bigger questions about cognition, human-machine interaction and even our own consciousness ...

Scientists in China have performed an experiment first proposed by Albert Einstein almost a century ago when he sought to disprove the quantum mechanical principle of complementarity put forth by ...

Classical and quantum mechanics don’t really get along as the science of the subatomic can get, well, weird. Take, for instance, quantum entanglement, which says that the state of one particle can be ...