An experiment 180 years ago first demonstrated a connection between light and electromagnetism – but the link is deeper than ...

NASA's Apollo 11 mission was not only a pivotal point in human history, but also a gift that keeps on giving as the work the astronauts did aboard the massive space rock still is helping us out today.

If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, it’s fair to say the general public has rendered science plain. The accumulation of data in controlled situations isn’t, after all, loveliness embodied. But an ...

A fish swims into an enclosure and disappears, while the pondweed behind remains perfectly visible. A cat climbs into a glass box and vanishes, and again the scene behind the box remains visible ...

Although our eyes usually can't see them, visible light contains all the colors of the rainbow. This kind of light is called 'white light,' and it's the light we get from the sun, a lamp or a ...