science

I’m grateful for advances in neuroscience, and for many reasons glad that every day we know more about how the brain works. But for all the studies of…

Acoustics is the science of sound, but the word also refers to the qualities of a room—the qualities that determine and describe how things sound in that…

When discussing acoustics it’s important to remember that there’s no absolute standard, and that different kinds of music may be better served by…

More today, about acoustics. Absolutely everything in the design and construction of a room, or concert hall, contributes to its acoustics… from the shape…

People picture coral reefs as bursting with color and teeming with a variety of undersea life, which many are. But their number is shrinking, says College…

Rudy shares some words attributed Sir Issac Newton.

Doctors are warning spectators not to look directly at the sun without protection during Monday's total eclipse.

Eclipse mania sweeps the nation. We’ll dig into the science, the history, the culture, and the folklore of the astronomical phenomenon.

Preview the great eclipse of August 21st, 2017, interactively! Pick your location on the Earth, scroll through time, and see if your view will be a…

Newton and Einstein had big ideas, but needed an eclipse to prove them. And scientists are still pursuing secrets of the universe one eclipse at a time.