Science classrooms have always done their best to simplify a complicated world. The problem is that simplification sometimes ...

About 96% of the universe is made up of dark matter and dark energy, which are undetectable to humans. Scientists believe ...

Bethesda's "Starfield" paints a picture of space that's heavy on mining – and which might be surprisingly accurate, at least ...

Scientists recently announced they had found potential signs of life on a planet 124 light years from Earth. While the bold claim has been challenged, the mere prospect is enough to inflame a ...

Photo Courtesy Wake Forest Institute for Regeneratie Medicine. Not long ago, it would have sounded like science fiction to discuss growing human organs in the lab or re-writing DNA. Yet today both are ...

She’s 18 now and hasn’t visited her aunt for several years. But like her aunt, she has a strong interest in cooking. Going into the kitchen, she’s pleased to see that her aunt has kept up with the ...

"Today's science fiction is tomorrow's science fact." This quote, attributed to Isaac Asimov, captures science's intricate relationship with science fiction. And it is hardly a one-way relationship.

The natural world rarely behaves the way we expect. Physics bends intuition. Biology ignores neat categories. Space refuses to be reasonable. Some facts sound like they were invented for a science ...