Hundreds of metro area students had Adventureland Park all to themselves on Friday for Physics Day. The educational event is ...

STEM learning doesn’t have to stay in the classroom—it can start right at your kitchen table. With everyday materials, kids ...

The following is an excerpt from “You’ve Been Pooping All Wrong,” by Trisha Pasricha, MD, MPH, which will be published on Tuesday. Science has finally settled the age-old debate of whose farts smell ...

Shira is eager to hear from college students and their families about how you’re feeling about the job market. Drop her a line at shira.ovide@washpost.com. A lot of students took the advice to learn ...

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Asteroid impacts may have helped kick-start life on Earth by creating hot, chemical-rich environments ideal for early biology. These impact-generated hydrothermal systems could have lasted thousands ...

The study of dinosaurs has been through a revolution in recent decades. The story began half a century ago, when Robert McNeill Alexander, a professor of zoology at the University of Leeds, showed how ...

The White House’s attacks on academia and budget cuts for research have provided an opening for other countries to poach leading scientists. By Vivienne Walt Vivienne Walt, a DealBook contributor ...

Albert Einstein famously discovered that nothing with mass, not even supersonic sound, is faster than the speed of light. For over a century we have operated with this belief. But, in reality, we’ve ...

Emmanuel Macron and Keir Starmer have become two of Donald Trump’s favorite punching bags as the US president tries to extricate his country from a war with Iran that has choked off a critical oil ...

This is an article about the science of why some people have instantly likable, magnetic personalities. But before we get to the research, let me tell you about something that drives me crazy about my ...

On the horizon for this year are Ann Leckie's latest, Neil Jordan's debut and more from Adrian Tchaikovsky. Exciting times, says our sci-fi columnist Emily H. Wilson Claire and her beacon-repair crew ...