In 1862, James Clerk Maxwell published his famous Maxwell’s equations. This was at a time when humans were just starting to ...

While it may be an unfamiliar sensation to humans, electroreception is relatively commonplace in the animal kingdom. Sharks, bees and even the platypus all share this ability to detect electric fields ...

Chemists are investigating the bizarre properties of certain materials that could be used to develop oxygen safety systems ...

Everyone is familiar with the light dome that shows from afar where cities are brightly lit at night. Artificial light that ...

The space agency’s AWESOME mission fired three rockets into the night sky in a bid to improve space weather forecasting.

Cam Woodfield Junior celebrates British Science Week with flaming fun and hands on discovery that makes STEM sparkle ...

When the truth came out in the 1990s, it horrified human rights organizations around the world. The total number of victims ...

The experiment, called Auroral Waves Excited by Substorm Onset Magnetic Events, or AWESOME, is led by researchers from the ...

A four-person crew will spend three to five days aboard a SpaceX capsule orbiting above the poles of Earth — a flight path ...

“It’s recognized that an energetic catalyst was almost certainly required to facilitate some of the reactions on early Earth that led to the ... built upon experiments from 1953 when American ...

A supersolid is a phase of matter that combines two apparently opposite characteristics: the rigidity of a crystal and the ...

Nor did the team discover new physics, he added — the experiments were based on known principles of electrostatics. “What we have done, for the first time, is we have seen that little droplets, when ...