Raphael Gomes turns everyday kitchen ingredients into fun science-style experiments anyone can try.

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 ...

Truth is uncovered in many ways—and basic science research is one of the most effective methods of revealing new truths. At the Saint Louis University School of Medicine, a team of researchers are ...

One summer day a young Martin Chalfie walked out of a lab after a particularly frustrating experiment. He thought—quite erroneously—that the life of a scientist was not for him. After teaching high ...

A collage with photos of Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi in front of the Nobel prize medal. The Nobel prize in chemistry went to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi for ...