The science pros at TKOR push pyro limits with exploding LEGO and flammable balls experiments.

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From a small island off the coast of Panama to the farthest reaches of space, the Smithsonian advanced our knowledge of the ...

Determining the "loudest recorded sound" depends on how you define sound and on which measurements you choose to include.

Astronomers may have discovered the first example of an explosive cosmic event called a "superkilonova," in the form of a gravitational wave signal detected on Aug. 18, 2025.

When the most massive stars reach the ends of their lives, they blow up in spectacular supernova explosions, which seed the ...

Autonomous free-flying robots aboard the International Space Station (ISS) frequently lose their bearings. Without gravity to distinguish up from down, even precision sensors suffer from accumulating ...

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Violations of federal campus safety regulations could cost Brown University in fines and federal financial aid loss.

The rapid expansion of high-throughput sequencing technologies has generated unprecedented amounts of multi-omics data, ...

Nandkumar M. Kamat As the year is about to end, here is a short review of important breakthroughs in science that defined the ...

A Perspective in National Science Review outlines a new paradigm for fully automated processor chip design. By combining ...