When you look up at the sky on a sunny day, the sun might seem like a bright spot, unchanging in the sky. But the sun is a ...

In less than a millionth of a second after a nuclear detonation or a severe nuclear reactor accident, an enormous burst of ...

Firefighters still have few options to prevent a tank of toxic chemicals in Garden Grove, Calif., from leaking or exploding.

Almost every month, Emory University physicist Justin Burton and his graduate students step out of the lab and bring loud, ...

Back in the late 1970s, a group of radio astronomers from Australia embarked on theoretical research. They aimed to detect ...

This video, which won the American Physical Society’s Milton van Dyke award, explains the foundations of this research. An evaporating droplet shrinks until it reaches a point at which it explodes ...

DENVER — Tiny, exploding black holes might explain one of the biggest mysteries about how the universe, in its current form, came to be. In the cosmos, matter is much more common than antimatter. But ...

Have you ever been drifting off to sleep when suddenly you hear what sounds like a gunshot, a door slamming, or an explosion inside your head? You jolt awake, heart pounding, sit upright in bed, but ...

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INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Jason Lindsey, a meteorologist and educator known as America’s “Mr. Science,” demonstrated several St. Patrick’s Day-themed science experiments designed to engage children in ...