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Experts explain why laundry and dishwashers aren't your biggest microplastics risk and share simple tips to reduce shedding ...
Randall Munroe once designed robots at NASA, and now he's undertaken a comparably tough task: describing the science of complex "stuff" such as elevators, the Mars Curiosity rover and nuclear ...
So, as frustrating as it may be in the moment, breaking stuff is an absolutely essential part of the progress of experimental science.
Chinese researchers have made what they say are the first multi-colored and brightest-ever luminescent plants.
Craig talks with the father of sleep medicine, William C. Dement, about the discovery of REM sleep, its connection to dreaming, and how that breakthrough revolutionized the science of sleep!
Propylene, the key ingredient in household plastic containers, has been discovered in the atmosphere of Saturn's smoggy moon Titan — marking more firsts for planetary science. It's the first ...
Science is all around us. There are always opportunities to learn more with the best science apps for Android.
An exotic quantum state that had previously appeared only under conditions of astonishing cold has made its room-temperature debut.
Yes, I have created science stuff for most of these cases—I would consider myself a science writer and a scientific consultant. From this, I have developed the number one rule of scientific writing.
Long before Brookhaven's scientists started to trap neutrinos, other scientists spun far-ranging theories about the little particles. Neutrinos may be small and shy, says Chinese-born Dr. Hong-Yee ...