Measuring conditions in volatile clouds of superheated gases known as plasmas is central to pursuing greater scientific ...

Explore how a basic LED can be used as a tiny solar cell, generating measurable voltage under sunlight. This hands-on ...

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Smitten with Science programming features Candy Chromatography workshops on Feb. 8, 15 and 22, teaching kids STEM concepts ...

Last week AES Andes—a subsidiary of the AES Corporation, an American energy company—announced it had scrapped its plans for a ...

Imagine shining a flashlight into a material and watching the light bend backward—or in an entirely unexpected direction—as ...

More people participating in the citizen science project Globe At Night could help fill gaps in what astronomers know about the extent of skyglow.

Loyola University now has the official green light to shift its latest Rogers Park project from teardown to full‑scale construction, after a foundation permit issued Friday opened the door to major ...

New experiments reveal how astrocytes tune neuronal activity to modulate our mental and emotional states. The results suggest ...

CERN's ALICE experiment has resolved the puzzle of deuteron formation, showing that most deuterons form via resonance-driven ...

AES Andes, the Chilean power generation unit of the U.S.-based AES Corp., has decided to abandon plans to develop the ...

A team of scientists has replicated one of Thomas Edison's early experiments from his quest to make the lightbulb, but with ...