Science is amazing, fascinating, and, if we’re being honest, sometimes absolutely terrifying. While we usually hear about cool breakthroughs and feel-good discoveries, there’s a darker side of science ...

Talk about a bizarre feature of the human body: If you happened to swallow a razor blade, your stomach acid would dissolve it. Acids are ranked on a scale from zero to 14—the lower the pH level, the ...

What are some science facts that people generally get wrong? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand the world ...

What do we do when students express interest in becoming secondary chemistry teachers? How do we encourage their exploration of this career? How we answer these questions, as individuals and members ...

If you were to file into a classroom and open your notebook for science class today, the subject matter might be a little different from when you were in school. Our body of scientific knowledge is ...

(NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington) In case you missed it, last week the ScienceAlert team shared their favorite science facts for you to use ...

In an interview on Meet the Press in January, Kellyanne Conway introduced a new phrase into popular discourse: "alternative facts." Conway, a senior adviser to President Trump, was asked to defend the ...

The natural world rarely behaves the way we expect. Physics bends intuition. Biology ignores neat categories. Space refuses to be reasonable. Some facts sound like they were invented for a science ...

Even if you weren’t someone who got excited about science class in school, now—as an adult—it’s hard not to be amazed by science facts. Seriously, just stop for a minute and think about what both the ...