Sighting may help improve understanding of the early universe. (ISNS) -- Scientists in Australia believe they've identified a quasar in the process of lighting up, for the very first time. This ...

A mystery that captivated the internet has a simple answer. At least, that’s what Colgate says.

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(Inside Science) -- Ever heard of a snap fit? It's kind of a fancy way to describe two pieces of (usually) plastic that fit or snap together. If you take look around your house, you'll probably see ...

(Inside Science) -- Flash photography, meet your match: graphene. "No Flash Photography" signs adorn museums and art galleries across the globe because excessive light can damage or destroy artwork. A ...

(Inside Science) -- The quest to track health information without drawing blood has inspired wearables like Fitbit and Apple Watch, but it's also pushing engineers to develop thin sensors that adhere ...

(Inside Science) -- Megan Povey has spent half a century building a reputation as a food physicist. She has shown how sound waves can be used as a tool to study food properties, to test food quality ...

(Inside Science) -- Even though he works with spiders regularly, Yao Zhang, a physicist at Jinan University in China, admits he's afraid of them. In fact, most of the people in his lab are, except for ...

Scientists have crushed the quest for room temperature superconductors, but only at ridiculously high pressures.

(Inside Science) -- A newfound dinosaur was likely as long as an elephant and was equipped with an extremely powerful bite, very sharp teeth, and huge claws on its feet, researchers say. In the dry ...

(Inside Science) -- Phosphorus, the 15th element, courses through the tree of life. It is a building block in DNA, RNA, cell membranes and bones. But because it is so scarce on the Earth's surface, ...

(Inside Science) -- Google’s 6200-mile-long fiber optic cable connects Los Angeles and Chile on the world wide web by sending pulses of light through a garden-hose-sized tube covered in metal and ...