Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights

Here's the chemistry behind those awesome fireworks shows.

Here's why plant life is so resilient to radiation and nuclear disaster.

Only recently have scientists found the human eye has its own microbiome.

Aren't all of these "medications" approved by the Food and Drug Administration? Nope.

I ate a burger last night and it surprised me. It was delicious. So what was surprising? It was made from peas.

The Defense Department remains the world's single largest consumer of oil, and as a result, one of the world's top greenhouse gas emitters.

You've probably seen ads for apps promising to make you smarter in just a few minutes a day. But can simply clicking away on your phone really help you improve your brain functions?

Humans are living longer around the world. While there have been obvious ups and downs, life expectancy at birth overall has been steadily increasing for many years

The universe really likes its information. It doesn't like to create new information, and it doesn't like to destroy any of its existing information.

Without the Higgs, the Standard Model of particle physics comes crashing down.

The giant rodents' taste for aquatic plants may have done them in.

The big move could help our rocky planet escape the expanding sun and prevent a collision with Jupiter.

The Green New Deal is not enough; we need to set a specific target for carbon dioxide levels here on Earth.

Max Planck had no idea where his solution would lead

We now know the moon is getting farther away from Earth by the year.

Here's what astronomers know about the "dark" side of our moon.

Physicists thought this was impossible, until now.