Welcome to Edition 8.31 of the Rocket Report! We have some late-breaking news this week with an update Thursday afternoon ...

The Lab Report: Every week, The Lab Report takes a deep dive into the (research) lives of students and professors outside the classroom. Somewhere along the Mississippi River, a blissful current whips ...

Science is a subject built on doing. Students learn chemistry through titrations, biology through dissections, physics ...

A new study explains why basketball shoes make a high-pitched squeaking noise when they rub against the hardwood. The ridges on the sole hold the key ...

Far beyond Neptune, in the frozen depths of the Kuiper Belt, many ancient objects oddly resemble giant snowmen made of ice ...

Looming behind Regenstein Library is a bronze, mushroom cloud–shaped sculpture—Henry Moore’s Nuclear Energy. Installed in 1967, it now seems like an inconspicuous part of the campus landscape. In ...

It is commonly assumed that tiny particles just go with the flow as they make their way through soil, biological tissue, and ...

The hypersonic missile defense systems market faces urgent growth driven by the rapid deployment of hypersonic threats, prompting increased budget prioritization for sensor upgrades and interceptors.

Isomorphic Lab’s proprietary drug-discovery model is a major advance, but scientists developing open-source tools are left ...

Nancy Shute discusses how our reporters find unique stories, from vaccine beer to a particle collider’s retirement to the rise of AI scientists.

Almost $1 billion in US government funding helped fuel a series of research projects involving defense labs in China in recent years, according to a new study that concludes security policies around ...