The exploding gummy bear experiment showed students what happens when a gummy bear’s sugar reacts with molten potassium chlorate. “It was cool to see it change colors. I’ve never seen anything else ...

New research suggests that a swarm of debris from an exploding comet left its mark by triggering the Younger Dryas, a period ...

From anger to hope, Kate Marvel and Tim Lenton explain how to tackle the tricky feelings aroused by climate change and ...

The last gasp of a primordial black hole may be the source of the highest-energy "ghost particle" detected to date, a new MIT ...

It sounds like something from the latest science fiction blockbuster. But scientists have revealed the terrifyingly high odds a black hole will explode in the next 10 years.

A tiny particle that smashed into Earth with a record-shattering energy of 220 petaelectronvolts could be the last scream of ...

With ally SpaceX, the Italian Space Agency is set to chart and safeguard future astronaut flights to Mars while testing tech ...

Paper airplanes flew, scientists sang about stomach bugs and one person dressed as a giant ball of mozzarella: Last Thursday, the 35th Ig Nobel Prize ceremony honored strange scientific pursuits with ...

The history of the Internet can be roughly divided into three phases. The first, from 1969 to 1990, was all about the ...

Prerna Singh, associate professor of political science, international and public affairs and behavioral and social sciences, ...