Peter Elmer of Princeton University explains how the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a Higgs boson factory, and why hunting through its data is like looking for a needle in a haystack. Elmer is the principal investigator on the $25...

With a rich history tracing back to prehistoric times and one of the most identifiable cultures on Earth, Japan is an absolute treasure-trove of intriguing facts. But it's also home to a number of perplexing mysteries - from the purpose...

Michael Kratsios, chief technology officer at the White House, shares the government's plan to keep up the pace in AI and quantum computing at WSJ Tech Live.

In episode 38, Charlie and Jordan highlight as many National Science Foundation-funded news stories as they can in one minute, including--but certainly not limited to--water on Mars, the woolly mammoth genome, smart band-aids and a new...

In part 5 of INET's interview with John Kay, he discusses the idea of how the story of the British Post War pharmaceutical industry shows that most profitable companies are not the most profit-oriented

The glow of the Milky Way -- our galaxy seen edgewise -- arcs across a sea of stars in a new mosaic of the southern sky produced from a year of observations by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). Constructed from 208...

Launched on Oct. 19, 2008, the Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, spacecraft, is unique to NASA's heliophysics fleet: it images the outer boundary of the heliosphere, a boundary at the furthest edges of the solar system,...

Humans have always looked up at the sky. They used astronomy to track time, orient their cities, decide when to plant their crops, and even based their religious practices on their celestial world. But there was much more to learn.<br/>

We are going forward to the Moon by 2024, but did you know that back in 2005, Dr. Jim Garvin and his team of scientists pointed the Hubble Space Telescope at our nearest celestial neighbor for a very important...

What was originally conceived as a mission of preventive maintenance turned more urgent on Nov. 13, 1999, when the fourth of six gyros failed and Hubble temporarily closed its eyes on the universe....

Experts now agree that Africa was the birthplace of humankind. Many of the oldest fossils have been discovered in Africa. Climatic changes and the Ice Age, which began close to three million years ago, gave rise to the spread of our...

Every year, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. recruits hundreds of interns to spend the summer working on revolutionary missions featuring state-of-the-art technology. This orientation video introduces interns to...

Nothing better than an intense rivalry between scientists...right? Well, that's exactly what happened with paleontologists Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh -- two men who really take the cake for petty feuds. This fight,...

In this introduction to Foucault, we consider the relationship between knowledge and power through looking (primarily) at three books by Michel Foucault: Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, The Order of Things and The History...

The Natural History Museum's Chris Stringer on recent discoveries that are challenging the way we think about our ancestors.

A new statistical study of planets found by a technique called gravitational microlensing suggests that Neptune-mass worlds are likely the most common type of planet to form in the icy outer realms of planetary...

This video is a lesson about the life and achievements of Marie Curie, a pioneering female scientist. It covers her early life in Poland, her struggles to pursue education in France, her marriage to Pierre Curie, and their joint research...

There’s a story behind every microbe’s name, and that of the Phacus smulkowskianus is surprisingly sweet.

Fossils discovered within rocks led scientists to begin to change their ideas on the creation of life on earth. Charles Darwin's 5 year voyage on HMS Beagle led to him collecting different flora and fauna from the countries he visited....

This begins by introducing the concept of gravity and how it affects objects. It then delves into Isaac Newton's early life, including his difficult upbringing and his passion for science. The video highlights his education, his...

No period of history can boast of greater beauty than The Renaissance. This was the period, from approximately early 14th century to late 16th century, that gave us Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Shakespeare. This video looks at...

I love my new Lego Research Institute Kit! Making all three scientist sets for camera didn't seem to do the characters justice, so I hope you enjoy the additional story of Paleaontologist, Mary Anning!

It's 4 Awesome Discoveries You Probably Didn’t Hear About. In this science video: body surfing bees, unsinkable metal, faster space forecaster, and gutsy mealworms purge plastic - It's 4 Awesome Discoveries...