Talk about a bizarre feature of the human body: If you happened to swallow a razor blade, your stomach acid would dissolve it. Acids are ranked on a scale from zero to 14—the lower the pH level, the ...

Reality is stranger than fiction—and science proves it every single day. While we navigate our daily lives thinking we understand the world around us, the universe quietly operates according to rules ...

Anyone can do a simple experiment. Navigate to a search engine that offers suggested completions for what you type, and start typing “scientists believe.” When I did it, I got suggestions about the ...

The natural world rarely behaves the way we expect. Physics bends intuition. Biology ignores neat categories. Space refuses to be reasonable. Some facts sound like they were invented for a science ...

If you were to file into a classroom and open your notebook for science class today, the subject matter might be a little different from when you were in school. Our body of scientific knowledge is ...

Science Night, 6-8 p.m. Thursday, May 2, is designed for kids of all ages. (Courtesy photo) Once a year, the community comes together for Science Night — two hours of free hands-on science activities ...