NPR's Juana Summers talks with Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of Short Wave about "scuba-diving" lizards, a trick to turn a mouse's skin transparent and whether finger counting helps kids' math skills.

A team of scientists at NASA have confirmed how Mars' 'spider' formations are carved by carbon dioxide. They were first ...

One of the most surprising predictions of physics is entanglement, a phenomenon where objects can be some distance apart but ...

Colourful science experiments are often much more engaging for younger children than less colourful activities. Adding colour to a lava lamp, volcano or density demonstration makes the activity feel ...

"Our experiment shows how the practical implementation of hybrid networks can succeed," says Kues. The research has been published in Science Advances.

The experiment's new results explore weaker dark matter interactions than ever researched before and further limit what WIMPs could be. "These are new world-leading constraints by a sizable margin ...

The mission is about more than altitude records and a private spacewalk. Update for 11 p.m. ET on Aug. 27: SpaceX has now delayed the Polaris Dawn launch until no earlier than Aug. 30 due to a ...

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Science and Civilisation in China is recognised as one of the most remarkable works of scholarship in the twentieth century. Originally proposed as a single volume of 600 to 800 pages, the project now ...