If you live close to a road in an area with wildlife, other decorations that could cause problems are real pumpkins. They could entice animals to cross the road, thus putting them in harm’s way.

This year's slate of Ig Nobel Prize winners include researchers who painted cows like zebras and a team who analyzed the pizza preferences of lizards.

What happens when you brush your teeth the hard way?

Two teachers at Sawtry Junior Academy, part of Meridian Trust, have recently completed the Primary Science Enhancement Award (PSEA) – a national professional development programme for early-career ...

Mary Athorp I was driving back to campus last week from my home in Wisconsin, and I felt a bit subdued by the drive. And so, to mitigate my subdued state, I decided that some music was necessary, and ...

Weird Science gets it title and premise from an obscure comics anthology, which certainly explains a lot about the movie.

Astronomers uncover a cosmic mystery: an extra image in an Einstein Cross points to a massive dark matter halo.

Well, it doesn’t literally disappear, but scientists have never even seen Facetotectans in their adult stage, so tracking the ...

"There is no more efficient investment of taxpayer resources than basic science and research and technology. These are the discoveries that drive not only the expansion of our economy, but the ...

New observations of M87*, the first black hole ever imaged, revealed that the supermassive blackhole has experienced several ...

The Ig Nobel Prizes will be announced this Thursday. The awards are given for scientific research that sparks humor first and ...

The best-selling author of the Strange Planet series, Nathan Pyle, is in town touring for his first children's book. He'll be visiting schools Thursday and signing books Friday at the DaVinci Science ...