For decades now, many physicists have pursued the hope that equations involving an especially tiny "string" could provide the ...

In the public’s mind, Benjamin Franklin’s scientific work has largely been reduced to this one experiment, in which Franklin demonstrated that discharges from thunderstorms are electric in nature (SN: ...

Osaka’s “danjiri matsuri,” or float festivals, are considered one of the most dangerous events on Japan’s festival calendar.

New images show the rapidly rotating pulsar of the "Guitar Nebula" shooting out a gigantic cosmic plume of plasma, X-rays and ...

and visionaries eager to share their insights into the science of success. This year’s festival was a treasure trove of wisdom, with speakers encouraging attendees to not only awaken their ...

Enjoy special guest takeovers, music mixes, and a whole host of brilliant storytelling this Christmas on BBC Radio and BBC ...

A science and technology festival for primary school children, which was postponed amid bus driver shortages last month, has been rescheduled for March. The annual STEMFest event, which also focuses ...

Police in Moscow raided multiple bars early Saturday and arrested the director of a gay travel agency under laws criminalising "LGBT propaganda", state media reported. Russian security forces ...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada is the first foreign G7 leader to visit President-elect Donald J. Trump since the election. He is under pressure to persuade Mr. Trump to back down from his ...

Beside the bluebells and celandines on the woodland floor, Fortey searches for morels, “the most delicious of all fungi”.

Albert Einstein's general relativity theory has been a pillar of contemporary ... of Theoretical Physics at the UNIGE Faculty of Science, who led the research. "We discovered that in the distant ...