High in the Swiss Alps, on a concrete dam wall more than 8,000 feet above the sea, someone bolted thousands of solar panels to a place almost no one thought was worth it. For years the assumption was ...

A DIY science project exploring how beta backscattering can be used to identify different elements. The experiment ...

Line up the brains of a fish, bird and a mammal, and something unexpected comes up. You do not see three different answers to the problem of making sense of the world. You see one answer, tilted three ...

Have you ever looked at an abstract painting and wondered what the artist was thinking? A splash of color on a canvas can ...

The first findings from a major survey of more than 800 young people ages 11–17 about social media were revealed to local ...

A simple physics experiment that demonstrates powerful scientific principles in action, showing how small setups can reveal ...