Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about physics, science, academia, and pop culture. Black Hole Blues is a history of the search for gravitational waves ...

Gravitational Waves have been detected, after a long search, a century after they were first said to exist by Einstein. Like the ripples seen when a stone is dropped into a pond, Gravitational ...

When an intense heat wave strikes a patch of ocean, overheated marine animals may have to swim thousands of kilometers to find cooler waters, researchers report August 5 in Nature.. Such ...

The racing-themed science lessons will be available free of charge to educators nationwide on NSTA.org. The collaboration between NASCAR and NSTA, ...

I wasstaffing one of the walk-by tables in a gizmos and gadgets "Share-a-thon"session last week at the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA)'s annualconvention in St. Louis.

Skidaway Marine Science Day makes waves in coastal education ... WTOC shares the kinds of activities people can enjoyed, including a hand-on reptile exhibit, behind-the-scenes sneak peaks of the ...

Gravitational waves, in case you forgot, are ripples in the fabric of space-time.Using theoretical physics, scientists are pretty certain that large objects in space must cause these ripples ...

Each duckling in the line passes along waves to those behind, so the whole brood gets a free ride. But to reap the benefits, the youngsters need to keep up with their mom. If they fall out of ...

Hold on to your wand, Harry Potter: Science has outdone even your best "Leviosa!" levitation spell. Researchers report that they have levitated objects with sound waves, and moved those objects ...