In the early 1960s, a deceptively simple question took shape inside a laboratory at Yale University: how far would an ordinary person go if instructed by an authority figure to harm someone else? The ...

Scientist Rock Crosslin joined us for some electric experiments! He taught us that electricity is a type of electromagnetic energy. A simple circuit includes a battery or power source, a path or wire, ...

An animal rights group is demanding the Oregon Health and Science University stop some experiments on ferrets after photographs emerged showing the animals in restrained in dirty conditions and the ...

On January 17, 1803, a young man named George Forster was hanged for murder at Newgate prison in London. After his execution, as often happened, his body was carried ceremoniously across the city to ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Bright lights were in little hands and even brighter minds at Windsor Park Elementary School on Wednesday. It was a lab day for one fourth grade science class. The young ...

Bits of material levitating against gravity, a stream of water deflected by invisible means, sparks of light appearing out of thin air; with observations like those, it’s a wonder that the early ...