Growing up, we all had to do all kinds of science projects in school. For Baby Boomers, here are several classic science ...

Before a space telescope ever reaches orbit, and long after satellites are up there, NASA has another way to do frontier science: high-altitude scientific balloons. These balloons can loft instruments ...

A simple science experiment shows how a balloon can be balanced in an unexpected way, demonstrating the principles of physics and stability.

You can't see, feel, hear, taste or smell them, but tiny particles from space are constantly raining down on us.

“I can’t help but notice we are in a Whole Foods,” I tell a Whole Foods employee who—perhaps having noticed me walking around ...

Spencer Axani, assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, is the inventor of CosmicWatch, a portable, low-cost particle detector that tracks muons, invisible particles that ...

Many kiddos were dazzled by an explosion presented at DHDC as part of their New Year's Eve festivities — and the kickoff to ...

Private companies are jumping into the race to deploy particles to the atmosphere to reduce global warming, prompting enthusiasm from investors and concerns from some scientists ...

When the US Department of Energy announced that it would stop funding the tokamak at MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center, ...

The pilot of a private jet was left stunned after spotting a small, silver cylinder hovering near his wing thousands of feet above Rhode Island. A newly released video of the live air traffic control ...

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