I test a series of light experiments to explore reflection, refraction, and optical illusions, demonstrating how light behaves in surprising and educational ways.

By directly communicating with the brain, a new wireless device could someday help restore lost senses or manage pain without medications, its developers say.

Your eyes may reveal when your brain is working overtime. Researchers found that people blink less when trying to understand ...

Teleportation has quietly shifted from pure fantasy to a working laboratory tool, and the latest experiments are starting to ...

Researchers found that cold is detected differently in the skin than in internal organs. This split system helps explain why cold air, cold drinks, and cold surfaces create very different sensations.

Brookhaven National Laboratory and collaborators have developed a new type of lidar—a laser-based remote-sensing ...

But now, they're planning to build telescopes on the far side of the Moon. These instruments will probe one of the last unexplored windows on the Universe. Here, astronomers hope to get a glimpse of ...

Life may have emerged from a surprisingly simple network of chemical reactions long before cells or genes existed.

A black fungus thriving inside Chernobyl’s reactor could help shield astronauts from deadly space radiation. Here’s how ...

Laurent Simons, 15, already earned a PhD in quantum physics, aiming to extend human life with ultracold science and AI ...

Part of the appeal of the Boyle myth may be that it promised a clean break: a waymark at which alchemy was cast aside and chemistry took over. But such changes rarely if ever happen in science, and ...

From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to ...