Nuclear weapons tests were once a regular occurrence, but most countries haven’t tested in decades, following the adoption of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty in 1996. Now, that moratorium ...

Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that deals in the deep scaffolding of the world: the nature of space, time, causation and existence, the foundations of reality itself. It’s generally ...

The brain is a mere piece of furniture in the vastness of the cosmos, subject to the same physical laws as asteroids, electrons or photons. On the surface, its three pounds of neural tissue seem to ...

Inside the STEM Zone at St. Francis Catholic High School, through trial and error, iteration and adaptation – with equal parts testing, observing and problem solving – a group of students is reaching ...

Science News has been covering nuclear physics since our earliest incarnation, starting with scientists’ effort to decode the secrets of the atom. In the 1930s, readers learned about the discovery of ...

Artemis II, the next mission in NASA’s Artemis program to explore the Moon, is scheduled to launch from Florida within the coming weeks. The mission will be the first crewed mission to the vicinity of ...

The science pros at TKOR try a viral TikTok experiment to see if peanut butter really glows, separating social media hype from scientific reality.