What do frogs, flowers and tacos have in common? They're all a little magnetic! At the atomic level, everything is a little magnetic, even you. This is because the electrons in every atom have a ...

In northern China there are flying fish and flying ants like you've never seen before. Scientists at Northwestern Polytechnical University in Xian have used sound waves to levitate these and other ...

The Ig Nobel Prize celebrates discoveries and inventions that are unusual and imaginative. Think of it as the younger, more fun sibling of the revered Nobel Prize. Ig Nobel Prize winners are often ...

Ten years after winning the parodic Ig Nobel prize for levitating a frog with magnets, Russian scientist Andre Geim has snagged the real thing. On Tuesday, the prestigious physics Nobel went to Geim ...

I realize a lot of people think I just make stuff up. Well, I do sometimes, but I try not to do it more than once in a column. Occasionally twice. Never more than three times. Science is actually ...

A frog, astronaut, and physicist walk into a… low-gravity research facility? Chinese scientists have recently developed an artificial moon setting that will be used to test technology and train ...