The 19th-century German toy pieces, made with quartz sand, chalk and linseed oil, allowed kids to create realistic structures ...

Joshua Plotnik, director of Comparative Cognition for Conversation Lab at the City University of New York, delivered a PBS ...

Miniature organs grown in the lab can organize themselves into complex shapes, which enables scientists to use them to study disease. The trouble is they never do it the same way twice, which has made ...

An experiment mimicking conditions on the Saturn moon suggests that cell-like bubbles don’t form in methane lakes, puncturing hopes for alien life.

Organized by the school’s STEM Outreach Club, the second annual Extravaganza for students in kindergarten through eighth grade was designed to be bigger and better than last year’s, club officers ...

To kick off National Engineers Week, the Thomas J. Watson College of Engineering and Applied Science invited hundreds of elementary, middle and high school ...

A Texas boy has been praised for building a working nuclear fusion machine at just 12 years old. Seventh-grader Aiden McMillan, from Dallas, is in the running for a Guinness World Record as the ...

Researchers have found a way to make ordinary aluminum tubes float indefinitely, even when submerged for long periods or punched full of holes. By engineering the metal’s surface to repel water, the ...

Did you know that years ago, St. Augustine's reputation as a tourist attraction also included exotic animal exhibitions? This March, residents will have the chance to connect that local heritage with ...

Hand holds elephant ear with cinnamon sugar in striped napkin - Gwenael Le Vot/Getty Images Some of the most exciting seasonal food in America has to be fair food, typically seen in the warm weather ...

A new study suggests that generosity may be more than a moral lesson—it could be shaped by how different parts of the brain work together. By gently stimulating two brain regions and syncing their ...

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