Roughly 270 years ago, Dr. Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost from Germany observed a peculiar behavior of water droplets on heated metal surfaces. In his manuscript, "A Tract About Some Qualities of Common ...

Last year, our most detailed map of the universe yet suggested our understanding of dark energy has been wrong for decades. The shock result is reigniting the search for a better cosmic story ...

Virginia-based Jefferson Lab is leading a project to transform nuclear waste into usable electricity while also drastically reducing its radioactive life.

In honor of Women's History Month, the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry is honoring women trailblazers in the energy ...

Can we build the structures of trust and reliability early enough to allow innovation to accelerate to new heights, without ...

The 4-H program offers more than 200 projects, but if youth want to explore a topic not on the list, they can create their own. It’s an opportunity for members to go beyond the scope of their current ...

It’s a regrettable reality that there is never enough time to cover all the interesting scientific stories we come across ...

Scientists have pulled off a feat long considered out of reach: getting light to mimic the famous quantum Hall effect. In their experiment, photons drift sideways in perfectly defined, quantized steps ...

When we hear about moving objects with electricity, most of us imagine a "pulling force." Positive and negative charges ...

The U.S. government has launched the process to develop a regulatory framework to develop fusion machines as emerging nuclear ...

By freezing a crucial phosphoric acid complex to near absolute zero, scientists uncovered a single, unexpectedly stable structure at the heart of proton transport.

Long-term tests further show that the presodiated hard carbon retains 93.6% of its capacity after 3,000 charge–discharge cycles. Microscopic and spectroscopic analyses confirm the formation of a thin, ...