I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve heard parents say, “She’s just not a maths person”. We don’t say, “He’s not a reading ...

America’s geological wonders don’t need erupting volcanoes to create breathtaking spectacles that look straight out of a ...

Continuous sleep is a modern habit, not an evolutionary constant, which helps explain why many of us still wake at 3am and wonder if something’s wrong. It might help to know that this is a deep ...

Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier — the very types of ...

Parents are set up to fail here. They are not given a lot of scientific education, they are told go home and do your own ...

Hidden in plain sight in Hilliard, Ohio sits a white building that houses a collection so unique and comprehensive that television historians from around the world make pilgrimages to see it – yet ...

How do we know the speed of light – and why does it have a speed limit at all? Leah Crane explores the history of one of the most important numbers in the universe ...

Our galaxy's most abundant type of planet could be rich in liquid water due to formative interactions between magma oceans ...

A Century Later' revisits the pages of Popular Science to see how yesterday’s bold predictions and groundbreaking discoveries have aged. A hundred years ...

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine alumnus and former faculty member Hamilton O. Smith, M.D., whose 1978 Nobel Prize-winning discovery of restriction enzymes revolutionized genetic ...