Superconductivity is the ability to transmit energy without any resistance when an object is cooled to a certain temperature.

Scientific discovery doesn't always require a high-tech laboratory or a hefty budget. Many people have a first-rate lab right in their own homes—their kitchen. The kitchen offers plenty of ...

The Large Hadron Collider was used in 2012 to find the elusive Higgs boson particle. The complex machine at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, in Geneva, includes a huge ...

In a recent issue of Science Magazine, the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) team of international astrophysicists reports the discovery of another new type of very high energy (VHE) gamma ...

Astronomers say the "unusual" energy bursts occurred every 20 minutes. There are theories as to what it could be, but the best guess is it's a slow spinning neutron star. Senior astronomer Seth ...

Cosmic rays definitely have the most mysterious-sounding name in the universe, and they definitely live up to it. Even their history is intriguing. Physicists first suspected their presence more than ...

The universe is expanding, and that expansion is accelerating, but exactly why and how that’s happening remains unknown. One hypothesis suggests that this expansion is driven by mysterious, black hole ...