Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

When Yu "Alex" Liang started graduate school at The University of Texas at Austin, he was tasked with running a straight-forward experiment to collect data on a well-understood phenomenon in fluid ...

DEMONSTRATE THE DIFFERENCES IN TEMPERATURE DENSITY, THROUGH A FUN EXPERIMENT. CAITLIN: TODAY WE ARE TESTING CONVECTION USING COLD WATER OR AN ICE CUBE DIED BLUE. WARM OR HOT WATER DYED RED AND ROOM ...

COMSTOCK PARK, Mich. — Rising air is all around us— outside and inside. It's what meteorologists call "convection." Warm air is lighter and less dense than cold air, so it has buoyancy and wants to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about physics, science, academia, and pop culture. I got an advance copy of Anil Ananthaswamy's forthcoming Through Two ...

Physicists in the US have performed a simple table-top experiment that could provide new insight into why the Earth’s continents drift apart and then move back together over several hundred-million ...

ABSTRACT A severe 5-day lake-effect storm resulted in eight deaths, hundreds of injuries, and over $3 million in damage to a small area of northeastern Ohio and northwestern Pennsylvania in November ...