Gaston County middle school students recently gathered at Belmont’s City Works building to explain their science fair projects to judges from county high schools and beyond.

It’s a regrettable reality that there is never enough time to cover all the interesting scientific stories we come across each month. In the past, we’ve featured year-end roundups of cool science ...

Many use it to cheat and take shortcuts in K-12 classrooms, but experts say done right, artificial intelligence could enrich ...

What makes someone feel instantly cool, no matter where you meet them? A new study suggests the answer is surprisingly consistent across cultures, and it has less to do with fashion trends and more to ...

Dr. Hal Alper is turning the tide on the plastic crisis. Using artificial intelligence, Dr. Alper and his collaborators in the College of Natural Sciences engineer enzymes—a catalyst in cells—to break ...

In an age where your grocery receipt might induce more shock than a Minnesota winter blizzard, there exists a retail haven in ...

It's a cool and cloudy start to our week. Temperatures mostly in the 60s this morning, with passing clouds. There are a few coastal showers as well. After a warm end to the weekend, with highs in the ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — The heat is beating down on the Triad this weekend and everyone is feeling it, including the pygmy hippos at the Greensboro Science Center. GSC posted a video of how they're keeping ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. It’s no big secret that spending time in the great outdoors is ...

On a December day, Richard Feynman gave a fun little lecture at Caltech — and dreamed up an entirely new field of physics. During the talk, entitled "Plenty of room at the bottom," he described the ...

Yes, Dollar Tree sells food, and no, it’s not all expired novelty items from countries you can’t locate on a map. The store stocks a surprising array of pantry staples that would make any ...

A spider with extra-long genitalia (for a good reason); a carnivorous caterpillar that wears its prey's body parts; and a tiny, mountain-dwelling opossum are among the cool new species described by ...