Legendary Prankster Adam B acts as a digital myth-buster by putting the internet's most unbelievable laboratory stunts to a rigorous physical test.

Astronomers have for the first time seen the birth of a magnetar—a highly magnetized, spinning neutron star—and confirmed that it's the power source behind some of the brightest exploding stars in the ...

Kīlauea volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island erupted on Tuesday in a nine-hour spectacular, shooting fountains of lava some 1,300 feet into the air, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

To unlock materials of the future, including better photocatalysts or light-switchable superconductors, researchers need to ...

Many people who don’t believe one conspiracy theory about that station—known as the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program, or HAARP—believe another. A common misconception is that it can ...

A new study explains how some supernovas are particularly dazzling—the glow from a magnetic, spinning ball of neutrons called a magnetar. An assist from Einstein is what settled the case ...

Scientists have successfully modeled large lightning strikes that occur on a kilometer scale in a lab setting of only a few centimeters ...