Forming stars sounds like the easiest thing in the Universe to do. Get some mass together, give it enough time to gravitate, and watch it collapse down into small, dense clumps. If you get enough of ...

A new website offers insights into which scientific concepts most U.S. students are knowledgeable about, as well as where a lot of them need to bone up, from atoms and DNA to how mountains form.

From the crest of a wave in the sea to the surface of a glass of water, there are always small fluctuations in density at the point where the air comes in contact with a liquid. Until now, it was ...

Professor Brian Cox is a physicist in England, very well-known there as a popularizer of science. The reasons for this are many-fold, including his ubiquity across media (including podcasts, Twitter, ...

If an atom could be enlarged such that we could see it with our naked eye, what would it look like? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from ...

Note: This video is designed to help the teacher better understand the lesson and is NOT intended to be shown to students. It includes observations and conclusions that students are meant to make on ...

Diego A. Quiñones is a PhD student at the University of Leeds and receives funding from the Mexican Council for Science and Technology CONACYT. The universe is an astonishingly secretive place.