The test subject that produced the first 3D magnetic resonance image was quiet and a bit hairy. Tough on the outside, the patient was a big softie at heart. It was also not human. Nobel Prize-winning ...

An exhibit at Philadelphia's Science History Institute looks at food science through the lens of the school lunch program. (Emma Lee/WHYY) From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, ...

“A lightning flash lasts only a few tenths of a second. Why does the resulting sound persist for half a minute or even longer? A typical lightning discharge consists of three strokes through a channel ...

Science occasionally gives us clearer views of the distant past. This year, researchers opened windows into the life and times of ancient Romans, impressionist painters and other towering historical ...

Today, when NCERT textbooks assert that Brahmagupta and Bhaskaracharya developed algebra independently and before Arab ...

An astronomy graduate student in England was scouring more than 100 pages of data per day from a radio telescope when she noticed a strange, repeating signal that she dubbed "LGM" — short for "little ...

On a December day, Richard Feynman gave a fun little lecture at Caltech — and dreamed up an entirely new field of physics. During the talk, entitled "Plenty of room at the bottom," he described the ...

April 13 is as ordinary a day as any other—which means that over the years it has seen its fair share of science headlines. Read on for the details. Mathematician Stanislaw Ulam had an illustrious ...

Science historians have a new resource they can tap to better understand the early days of molecular biology. The nonprofit Science History Institute (SHI) this week added a collection known as the ...

“Imagine that the earth has been watched over the aeons by an extremely patient extraterrestrial observer. Nothing, save a little hydrogen and helium, leaves the planet. And then, less than 20 years ...