I’m not going to pretend these kitchen experiments won’t create a mess. They will. There will be vinegar on your floor, food ...

More than a century after its invention, illustrators still use a lit bulb to symbolize a great idea. Credit typically goes ...

Chemists have discovered tiny zaps of electricity moving between “swamp-gas” bubbles. Could they ignite methane gas to glow as dancing blue flames?

Determining the nature of dark matter, the invisible substance that makes up most of the mass in our universe, is one of the ...

Determining the nature of dark matter, the invisible substance that makes up most of the mass in our universe, is one of the greatest puzzles in physics. New results from the world’s most sensitive ...

Researchers from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and international collaborators from the US, Canada, and South Korea have shown that entangled light can drastically reduce the number of ...

For scientists, though, one big mystery still remained. Although will-o’-the-wisps are not actual flames and occur at ambient ...

Mysterious flashes of light seen in swamps and bogs could be caused by burning methane or other gases, ignited by sparks that ...