Explore the mysterious transient lunar phenomena (TLPs), short-lived events on the moon's surface that intrigue scientists ...

Earth's moon is occasionally illuminated by flickers, glows or beams of light. What are these mysterious lights?

On a bright, sunny day, a group of first-graders eagerly begins a science investigation called “Shadow Town.” The teacher gathers them in a circle and asks, “What causes shadows?” It’s a good question ...

Early scientific theories—such as those explaining basic phenomena like gravity, burning, and the movement of molecules in water—centered on presumed inherent properties rather than external factors, ...

I was terrified, to be very honest, when my district switched to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and I had to begin using phenomena-based instruction. If you look at the standards, ...

For some people, sleep brings a peculiar kind of wakefulness. Not a dream, but a quiet awareness with no content. This lesser ...

In his sci-fi film Inception (2010), Christophe Nolan imagined his protagonist slipping into other people’s dreams and even shaping their contents. But what if this story wasn’t so far away from real ...

The researchers, who published their findings in the journal Nature Climate Change, identified the terrain's lower "albedo" ...

This month marks the five-year anniversary of the World Health Organization’s declaration that COVID-19 was a pandemic. That announcement shuttered school buildings and launched millions of students ...