Experiments point to how scientists can strengthen or weaken memories, which may eventually lead to treatments for Alzheimer’s disease or PTSD.

Natural and human-made rubber can change its shape and come back again. Materials that can do this are called “elastic”. Elastic materials are useful in lots of ways: Similar to how tires and sneakers ...

Researchers in Montana say they have found a way to turn fungus into a brick, which could eventually offer a more sustainable cement alternative.

These are the kinds of questions astrophysicist and science journalist Adam Becker poses in his new book, More Everything ...

The answer could be a few different reasons. Your breath has a lot of carbon dioxide. When you blow, the carbon dioxide pushes oxygen out of the way and the flame goes out. Your breath blows away some ...

Dominick said "some interesting science stuff" was happening during the display, which he filmed aboard the International Space Station on Wednesday before departing for Earth. In a post on X ...

And Jim Watson? After the Nobel Prize, he turned administrator, building the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory into a science and graduate training factory, and he remains a power and public gadfly of ...

“We should keep our eye on the ball,” says Matthew Bunn, a nonproliferation expert at HarvardUniversity’s BelferCenter for Science and International Affairs. “Radiological terrorism could ...