This week’s experiment with Lydia from the Discovery Center Museum puts a little bit of a spin on the classic ‘cloud in a bottle’ trick. By using simple materials from home, she ...

There’s a shocking lack of understanding of the physics underlying this commonplace phenomenon, but researchers are on the ...

When particles in volcanic ash cloud rub together, some pick up positive charge and others negative – now physicists have ...

Thunderstorms belong to a non-exhaustive list of surprisingly mundane things that we know surprisingly little about. Last ...

In this video I show how to make a balloon inflate all by itself using items from my kitchen. I pour white vinegar into a plastic bottle, then load baking soda into a balloon with a paper funnel. When ...

Seemingly random charging of identical materials depends on the carbonaceous molecules stuck to their surfaces ...

The familiar phenomenon has puzzled researchers for centuries, but experiments are finally making sense of its unruly behaviours.

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) have created a new and unusual state of matter—known as a supersolid—by ...

Robby Fabbri joins the Wild lineup tonight, stepping into a new jersey and a prime scoring opportunity against the formidable Lightning. With injured forward Marcus Foligno out with a lower-body ...

SAN ANTONIO — Neighbors east of downtown San Antonio are keeping watch after a cat was spotted with a jar stuck on its head. The sighting happened near East Houston Street and North Grimes Street, and ...