science

Kari Byron. Tory Belleci. Grant Imahara. To a certain subset of television watchers, those names are as iconic as any in the field of cable TV, making up as they…

Bill Nye the Science Guy has been a more or less constant presence in popular culture for the almost 20 years since his show went off the air, but he…

Yesterday afternoon in New York City, an exciting event for space enthusiasts all over the world took place, courtesy of the famous Bonhams auction house. It was the Space History…

Many of science‘s greatest discoveries have been accidental in nature—take the one stumbled upon by Mas Subramanian in 2009, when he was working on a series of experiments toward developing…

Everyone who’s ever read the packaging of a popular snack food knows that our food is often loaded up with chemicals and additives that barely seem pronounceable, let alone edible.…

NASA has recently released yet another killer video featuring our (“our” meaning humanity’s) mutual friend and benefactor, the sun. It’s called Thermonuclear Art – The Sun In Ultra-HD. As its title…

How addictive is Candy Crush? Science has now made one step towards finding an answer, thanks to the brave efforts of a man who played it so much that he tore…

With the possible exception of Pulsar: The Ultimate Man of Adventure, most people don’t ever have to see what the digestion process looks like. But this is 2015, and you…

We’ve all seen examples of waterproofing, from plants in the natural world that water beads off of to similar effects in clothing. But at the University of Rochester, what’s being…

Scientists are usually focused on pointless stuff like global warming, world hunger, and medical research, but every once in a while they come out with something that’s actually important –…