Each week, we bring you a quick and easy experiment you can do at home to explore a concept in science. This week, we build a ...

From mice to elephants, nearly every mammal appears to get around one billion heartbeats before death. Humans are the bizarre ...

Scientists have pinned down why a sprinkler spins when it sucks in water instead of spraying it out — a problem that stumped ...

An organelle discovered inside a microbe inside a cow’s gut helps explain how livestock burps contribute to warming our ...

Led by Brown faculty, high schoolers in an intensive, two-week Summer@Brown course combine cellular biology, 3D printing and ...

The longest human space flight up to that time ended with the splashdown of the Skylab 3 crew of Alan L. Bean, Owen K. Garriott, and Jack R. Lousma on September 25, 1973.

When biologist Adam Hartstone-Rose watched zoo animals during a solar eclipse, he expected them to shrug it off like a passing storm. What he observed instead raised an uncomfortable question about ...

Astronomers have caught a supermassive black hole straying far from the centre of its galaxy using light from a star being ...

Modern science offers cruelty-free testing alternatives that are more accurate than animal experiments, yet hundreds of ...