Lions are built for terror. With their bladed paws, wielded by a rippling mass of pure muscle, sharp eyes, agile reflexes, ...

The weather’s always fine inside these five Austin history museums. Three of the five exhibits focus on the history and ideas ...

You scratched that bug bite and now it's a big itchier bump. Some science explains why scratching really can make things ...

A staple for summertime activities- fireworks! Where do they get their characteristic color from? I traveled down to the ...

A new intranasal DNA vaccine may give the immune system an extra weapon against tuberculosis by targeting bacteria that can ...

There is a constant war going on in your body. Working against you are viruses and cancer cells growing uncontrollably, threatening your tissues and organs. Fighting on your side are immune cells such ...

Ex-science teacher Norman Reimer beat child molestation charges, punishable by life in prison, by arguing the girls touched ...

Would a rat help another rat in distress? That was a question a group of researchers wanted to answer more than a decade ago. They launched a study to see how one rat would respond if its cagemate ...

It’s a regrettable reality that there is never enough time to cover all the interesting scientific stories we come across. So ...

This article is part of “The Young American Scientists,” which includes stories of 28 extraordinary scientists poised to change the world, as well as a deep look at the past, present and future of ...

German psychologist Wolfgang Köhler set up a famous experiment more than 100 years ago that changed how scientists understand animal intelligence and the power of insight — or spontaneous ...

175 years ago, the Foucault pendulum experiment caused a nationwide public science fad. Most people understood what scientists knew about the universe, but Foucault made it feel real. Science was ...