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You may want to try this over the kitchen sink or place the egg in a zippered plastic bag. To test the strength of an eggshell, place a raw egg in the palm of your hand. Squeeze the egg in your palm ...

There's a whole world of home science projects beyond the vinegar and baking soda volcano. Credit: peopleimages via Getty Images The vinegar and baking soda volcano is a science fair classic, but ...

A decade ago, scientists funded by the National Institutes of Health used ferrets to engineer a highly lethal flu virus. The purpose of the research — known as “gain of function” — was to better ...

In the heart of a new dark matter detector, LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ), a 5-foot-tall detector filled with 10 tons of liquid xenon, will search for hypothetical dark matter particles to produce flashes of light ...

Recently, there has been extensive debate about the benefits and risks of dual use research of concern (DURC), particularly with the use of gain-of-function (GOF) experiments in potentially pandemic ...

Editors note: this is a splendid guest post by Paul Jarvis, a web designer, author and gentleman of adventure. I used to let fear of a failed side project keep me from trying new things outside of my ...

The Department of Energy (DOE) has unveiled three nuclear microreactor developers that will design the first experiments at Idaho National Laboratory’s (INL’s) new Demonstration of Microreactor ...

China has selected nine scientific experiments — including a project that will probe how DNA mutates in space — to fly on its first major space station, scheduled to be completed in 2022. The China ...