Rainbows don't actually exist. You can't find the end of a rainbow (or its attendant pot of gold). It's not possible to walk across a rainbow as the Norse gods did on the Bifrost, the bridge for ...

Wasps are known for being aggressive, but did you know they are also quite artistic? A student in Italy did an experiment ...

White light is a mixture of all the colors of the rainbow, but before 1672 ... In perhaps the most widely repeated story in all of science, Newton is said to have chanced upon the theory of ...

At a forest school, the roof is the bright blue sky, a cluster of ladybugs flying through the air can turn into a science lesson and the fog lingering ... that’s the exception to the rule these days, ...

NASA announced two awards Thursday to establish scientific consortia – multi-institutional coalitions to conduct ground-based studies that help address the agency’s goals of maintaining a sustained ...

China hopes a giant laboratory 2,300 feet underground is key to beating the US at discovering the secrets of the universe’s most mysterious particles–neutrinos. Slated for completion next year ...

It is usually not possible to look inside cloudy liquids, but researchers have now managed to do so. When driving though a bank of fog, car headlights are only of limited help as the light is ...

Non-fiction publishing is failing its readers. It is pumping out books with supposedly game-changing ideas, without bothering to ensure basic accuracy. These tomes have the appearance of academic ...

But what does that mean? Francis Bacon, the science philosopher, said that science relies on thematic organization and a logical narrative flow, referring to experimentation without direction as “mere ...

Can you completely submerge a paper towel under water without it getting wet? The answer is yes, you can! It needs some science trickery, but you’ll be surprised how easy it is! When the glass is ...