Through simple hands-on lessons, students can follow their curiosity, get messy, and explore the world around them.

In the era of precision cosmology, research often means big science: large observatories, highly complex instruments, ...

Large wood (LW; >10 cm in diameter and >1 m in length) within river corridors - including channels and adjacent floodplains - plays a key role in shaping hydraulic conditions, sediment deposition and ...

Decades of weird experimental results appeared to support the existence of the sterile neutrino, a hypothetical particle that ...

A volcanic formation known as Pele’s hair is produced when air-filled magma is stretched, according to a new study by a team of scientists and glass artists.

See a wild experiment where a person is wrapped in a foil suit to test if it can protect against electricity. The demonstration shows how electric current follows the path of least resistance, ...

Quantum physicists at the Australian National University (ANU) have achieved a major milestone by directly observing atoms ...

Smart home communication protocols form the backbone of connected living spaces, determining how devices interact and perform. Each protocol has distinct strengths tailored to different scenarios. For ...

Most people associate ash and churning lava with volcanic activity, but volcanoes also produce formations that look unnervingly like human ponytails. Known as Pele's hair, these extremely thin strands ...

Update: After publication of this article, on 10 April, the two preprints on bixonimania were taken down from the Preprints.org server. Got sore, itchy eyes? You’re probably one of the millions of ...