Explore 25 science experiments that defied the laws of physics, revealing mind-bending phenomena that challenge intuition.

Sarah Mason’s three-year-old daughter Freya has always loved finding out why things do what they do and how things work, so (with the help of her mum) she set up her own science YouTube channel: Freya ...

Bruce J. MacFadden has received funding from the U. S. National Science Foundation. It might seem surprising, but federal research funding isn’t just for scientists. A component of many federal grants ...

In recent debates about government funding, certain quirky-sounding research projects — like studying shrimp on treadmills — have grabbed headlines and become easy targets for criticism. Politicians ...

Looking for a science project to do with kids? These experiments go beyond the trivial and incorporate real-world scientific research. Around the world, millions of kids are headed back to school in a ...

At first glance, some scientific research can seem, well, impractical. When physicists began exploring the strange, subatomic world of quantum mechanics a century ago, they weren't trying to build ...