NPR's Short Wave talks about elephants' sniffing abilities, the remarkable migration of painted lady butterflies and a ...

Sophie Germain was a brilliant, self-taught mathematician who won one of France's most prestigious prizes, yet she declined ...

At the heart of our sun, fusion is unfolding. As hydrogen atoms merge to form helium, they emit energy, producing the heat ...

We often think of memories like the contents of a museum: static exhibits that we view to understand the present and prepare for the future.

You can't see, feel, hear, taste or smell them, but tiny particles from space are constantly raining down on us.

Biology has always been an unruly science. Cells divide when they want to. Genes switch on and off like temperamental lights.

Check one, two; check one, two; is this thing on? Over on The Public Domain Review [Lucas Thompson] takes us for a spin through sound, as it was in Britain around and through the 1800s. The ...

Mantis Shrimp Can See Colors We Literally Have No Words For Mantis shrimp look like small, angry lobsters, yet their eyes are ...

Students spend two days a week conducting research on Long Island Sound, which culminates with a presentation on their ...

Live concerts, fireworks and roaring stadium crowds can reach dangerously high volumes — loud enough to cause permanent hearing loss. But what was the loudest sound ever recorded on Earth? The answer ...

Two years ago the University of California’s Dr. Vern O. Knudsen, president of the Acoustical Society of America, communicated to the Society’s Journal some studies which indicated that sound is ...

(CITY OF PLYMOUTH) – The City of Plymouth will hold STEMtacular Saturday – a new event slated for 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, Nov. 8 at the Plymouth Community Center, 14800 34th Ave. N. In celebration ...