On a cold evening in November 1895, in a darkened laboratory in Würzburg, Germany, physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen noticed something strange. He had been experimenting with cathode rays inside a ...

Atoms measure roughly 0.1 nanometers across, a scale so small that scientists spent more than six decades developing instruments capable of resolving them with any clarity. The journey from the first ...

The FBI's week-long investigation into "suspicious materials" found at an Irvine home stems from a college student's science project, his family's attorney said.

A 17-year-old whose science experiment led to a massive probe by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and hazardous ...

The science of motion can often surprise you - and an inertia experiment could have the opposite results from what you think!

Watch a clip from 'The Great Experiment,' a documentary examining deep polarization in America, set to premiere at the ...

Cathode ray tubes (CRTs) are a fascinating display technology that has been largely abandoned outside of retro gaming and a few other niche uses. They use magnets to steer a beam of electrons rapidly ...

[The Signal Path] shows us how to recreate a classic science experiment to measure the weight of an electron. Things are easier for us, because unlike [J. J. Thomson] in 1897, we have ready sources of ...

THE existence of free positive electrons or positrons was first reported by me in September 1932 1, from cosmic ray experiments carried out at the California Institute of Technology. In the original ...

We are at a critical time and supporting climate journalism is more important than ever. Science News and our parent organization, the Society for Science, need your help to strengthen environmental ...

WE propose in this communication to describe results of experiments on the electrical effects of Röntgen rays and of ultra-violet light when shone on metals, or through air between two metals mutually ...