Stefan Hutzler and Louise Bradley explain how they turned the famous pitch-drop experiment into an outreach activity ...

It is as if one person said, ‘It is bitter cold in Chicago’; and another answered, ‘That is a fallacy, it is very hot in Florida.” Erwin Schrödinger’s clever joke to Einstein in 1935 struck the ...

I’m not going to pretend these kitchen experiments won’t create a mess. They will. There will be vinegar on your floor, food coloring on hands that lasts a day or two, and siblings will squabble as ...

Chemists have discovered tiny zaps of electricity moving between “swamp-gas” bubbles. Could they ignite methane gas to glow as dancing blue flames?

For scientists, though, one big mystery still remained. Although will-o’-the-wisps are not actual flames and occur at ambient temperatures, they still have to ignite somehow. The source of that ...

As per the clip, the magnetic tune is otherworldly and creepy, like the title soundtrack to a deep space horror thriller or the geological equivalent of playing records backwards to hear the Devil.