For the first time, scientists have characterized a promethium coordination complex, advancing the understanding of ...

A man's bizarre passion led him to imprisonment of up to 10 years. His lawyer tried every possible defense, arguing that his ...

Then there’s “chokable snow,” a term for powder so deep that it flies up into your mouth. The list goes on. One lift ride, he ...

“He simply said, ‘meet Patty.’” Scholl, whose bushy, white, mustache picked up snowflakes on the ride up, said the jokes land ...

A 24-year-old Australian man could go to jail for ten years as he prepares to plead guilty for importing plutonium from a ...

Unlike other elements reportedly gathered by Lidden, the plutonium sparked a major hazmat alert, requiring a response from ...

The steady torrent of spaghetti science helps to demonstrate that deep questions lurk in our ordinary routines, and that there are plenty of hungry physicists who can't stop asking them.

Scientists have been complaining for years that the way we fund science is flawed. Researchers are too often waiting up to 20 months for grant funding, an eternity in fast-moving fields like ...

But two years later, when he finally set aside time to go through the paper (“just for fun,” as he put it), his efforts would lead to a rethinking of a widely used tool in computer science.

More than 75 years after its initial discovery, scientists have created an organometallic molecule containing the transuranium element berkelium. According to a new study, the electronic signature of ...

In the July 1931 issue of Popular Science, writer George H. Waltz described television as “the miracle field of sending pictures through the air.” Nearly a century later, television ...