In the era of precision cosmology, research often means big science: large observatories, highly complex instruments, ...

Through simple hands-on lessons, students can follow their curiosity, get messy, and explore the world around them.

Research from MIT Sloan School of Management has demonstrated a new way of designing social science experiments that can ...

The closest thing to utopia the world has ever seen might have existed in a Maryland barn for a couple of years during the late 1960s: a complex built for rodents as part of a science experiment. The ...

Scientists can’t be everywhere all at once, as much as they’d like to. Many of the problems citizen science helps solve are ...

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Under the watchful eyes of neighbors, scientists in white lab coats knelt to spread a flour-like mineral over a lawn in Huntington Park. The dusting of zeolite doesn’t take long, but it could be key ...

Have you ever imagined the solution to a logic problem instead of calculating it? Such “thought experiments” are carried out using one’s imagination rather than doing actual research. Typically ...

If “art for art’s sake” is a desirable slogan, why not “science for science’s sake”? Modern scientists, whose goals are apt to be shaped by armed forces’ research grants or a corporation’s search for ...

As a potential Northwest Indiana carbon sequestration project looms, area residents plan to continue fighting — even if they have to do it alone. Just Transition Northwest Indiana on Tuesday hosted a ...