Wu’s innovation won the top prize of $25,000 at the 2025 Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge. Hosted by the Society for Science since 1999, it is the nation’s leading STEM competition ...

The story of the Easy-Bake Oven begins with pretzels. In the early 1960s, Norman Shapiro was walking through New York City when he spotted vendors keeping pretzels warm with small ovens. Shapiro was ...

These oft-anonymous messages took aim at pretentious poets, unhelpful salespeople, suffragists and secessionists alike ...

Warming temperatures are wreaking havoc at elevation, upending the Winter Olympics and the tourism industry and imperiling ...

Six men spent more than two hours tugging the massive flatfish from a frozen fjord in Quebec as part of a research project studying halibut populations in the region ...

One of the largest paperback distributors has decided to stop supporting the format, which has been making reading accessible to the masses since the 1930s ...

For a mere moment after the Big Bang, no neutrons or protons are thought to have existed. These neutral and positively charged particles, respectively, make up the center of all atoms today. But ...

We know the main reason that the age of the dinosaurs came to an end: an asteroid impact on the Yucatán Peninsula some 66 million years ago. But how the dinosaurs’ reign began is far less clear—and ...

In a decades-long observational study of nearly 132,000 people, individuals who drank two to three cups of coffee or one to ...

Advanced imaging technology has revealed 79 new pieces of graffiti on a wall in the city's theater district. Until now, these inscriptions had been too faint for the human eye to see ...

Beds of Bathymodiolus mussels provide important habitat for other deep-sea critters, including sea stars, scaleworms and limpets. NOAA Ocean Exploration. The deep sea is the large ...

Over a dozen artists from the sister cities of Tucson, Arizona, and Almaty, Kazakhstan, assembled for a cultural exchange in July 2025.