Pale rocks on the red planet reveal a watery past and suggest the potential for life. Sometimes, scientists have to dig, work ...

The Curiosity rover detected the largest organic molecules to date on Mars, which may be fragments of fatty acids, or some of the chemical building blocks of life.

Scientists have long sought to unravel the mysteries of strange metals—materials that defy conventional rules of electricity ...

These fascinating science facts prove that reality is often stranger—and a lot more interesting—than fiction These ...

Researchers conducted the first-ever near-infrared analysis of an extragalactic recurrent nova and found it is one of the ...

In theory, as Earth spins through its magnetic field, any conductive material placed on its surface should experience a force ...

Imagine electronic devices that never overheat and sensors that detect pollutants with unmatched precision. Researchers at ...

Food printing has been around for a while, but some experiments have taken it to strange new places. Scientists and chefs ...

The leading explanation for all of these mysteries is known as the giant impact hypothesis. According to this story, when the ...

Now, APS is getting closer to breaking ground on a major project funded with that money — the first ever health science high school in Colorado. The school — which doesn’t have a name yet — will offer ...

For this round-up, we took a look through the year’s archives, looking for bizarre stories. Some of these are amusing, but there are some cautionary tales as well.

Amy Wang at SXSW 2025. (Robby Klein/Getty Images for IMDb) ...