Holidays
Our coverage throughout another tough year has continued to explore how science influences daily life.
The complex dynamics of spinning tops, such as dreidels, allow for bewildering designs and handy physics demos.
Images from the end of 2020 filled with wonder, exuberance and hope.
Optimally cutting lots of complex shapes from a sheet of dough is even harder than many researchers suspected.
Celebrating the Indigenous people of the Americas who revolutionized what the world eats.
A survey of 1,225 dog owners reveals what works and what doesn't to help dogs with firework fear.
The braided ribbon on a maypole can be analyzed using a type of math called group theory.
Oxytocin-deficient animals point to deep links between social behavior and the need to keep warm.
The probability of a snowy Christmas in any location depends on lots of factors -- including the effects of climate change.
Both can be made using the power of particle accelerators.
As Halloween approaches, stage blood takes the spotlight and chemistry tricks can treat viewers.