During the Cold War, the U.S. military explored chemical agents that could disable enemy troops without killing them. Among ...

In 1969, a controversial experiment used amphetamines to induce psychosis in healthy volunteers—changing our understanding of ...

Liam Thompson experiments with making very unfizzy things fizzy for a surprising result.

Through subterfuge, ingenuity, and an unceasing love of chemistry, 17-year-old boy scout David Hahn more than earned his ...

Researchers have discovered that simple liquids can have breaking points, beyond which they suddenly fracture like solids.

Odd chemical pathways can give completely unexpected makeovers to some of the most troublesome waste; take, for example, an ...

Researchers accidentally formed gold hydride under extreme pressure, revealing that gold is actually a "reactive metal." ...

A Japanese team's discovery that stainless steel ball mills can activate nickel catalysts adds to a growing list of examples ...

Research from MIT Sloan School of Management has demonstrated a new way of designing social science experiments that can ...

The resurrection of Jesus has long been called the central 'mystery of faith,' but scientists have claimed to have found ...

Love of the Boundary Waters, northern Minnesota’s national treasure, isn’t partisan or a choice between environmental ...

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory developed a method to convert a commonly discarded ...