McLean County has one Nobel Prize winner — but oh what a one! Modern electronics rests upon Clinton Davisson’s physics experiments bombarding a block of crystalized nickel with electrons.

In a step toward making ultra-bright X-ray sources more widely available, an international collaboration led by the ...

These experiments are safe, affordable, and highly visual—ideal for home or hostel. Try them with simple explanations, ask ...

In May of this year, satellites captured a staggering view from space: 37.5 million metric tons of floating brown seaweed ...

Researchers from the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2), Xi’an Jiaotong University, and Stony Brook ...

Michael Riordan surveys the extraordinary year of 1964, which saw the birth of the quark model, the invention of the Higgs ...

Get ready for an exhilarating presentation as a mighty car tackles the challenge of crushing different objects like cola cans and balloons! In this satisfying crushing experiment, will the car ...

Over the past 60 years, scientists have largely succeeded in building a computer model of Earth to see what the future holds.

Saturday at the Wheeler Opera House, the one-day symposium “Frontiers of Knowledge” will explore groundbreaking discoveries ...

Dark energy —the term used to describe whatever is causing the universe to expand at an increasing rate—is one of the universe’s greatest mysteries. The most widely accepted theory currently suggests ...

They discovered a property they call “curvity”—a natural tendency of particles to bend or curve as they move. Much like ...