James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

This photo shows how a small drop of water can reflect an entire forest landscape inside it. What amazes me about this phenomenon is the intricate level of detail captured in such a tiny sphere - ...

With over 165 hands-on exhibits spread across nine floors, this is less like visiting a museum and more like stepping into a ...

Minuscule silicon wafers propelled by lasers could be used to steer light sails, helping them travel beyond the solar system ...

CU Boulder researchers have developed 3D-printable materials embedded with living bioluminescent algae that can produce ...

U.S. Sen. John Cornyn said he opposes federal funding for Austin’s planned $7 billion light-rail system, whose fate relies heavily on such support. Cornyn, a Texas Republican facing Attorney General ...

This week's science news followed last week's climactic splashdown of the Artemis II mission with a flurry of space and physics news that only further melted our minds. Topping the list was the ...

Scientists at Hokkaido University have now introduced a method that can measure these forces with high precision. Using this ...

Science fiction is not monolithic. There are, in fact, two major sub-genres that divide sci-fi — hard sci-fi and speculative (or soft) sci-fi — and most of the time, the delineation between the two is ...

Researchers at Stanford have developed a compact optical amplifier that dramatically boosts light signals using very little ...

A group of Rice University students has turned a single-semester course project into a peer-reviewed research paper, ...

A new optical device allows researchers to generate and switch between two stable, donut-shaped light patterns called skyrmions. These light vortices hold their shape even when disturbed, making them ...