Results of the 14th annual Cool Science Image Contest were announced on Wednesday with winners selected from a pool of entries that include University of Wisconsin faculty, professors and students.

A local teen's international science fair success shows what's possible and why parents should encourage curious kids to give ...

Throughout history, people have come up with surprising ways to beat the heat that actually work. By Hiroko Tabuchi Long before air-conditioning, people around the world came up with ingenious ways to ...

It’s a regrettable reality that there is never enough time to cover all the interesting scientific stories we come across. So every month, we highlight a handful of the best stories that nearly ...

More than 16 years after Kyron Horman’s disappearance sparked a sweeping manhunt and shaped a generation of Oregon schoolchildren, investigators say they are leveraging new technology in their search.

Fans collected through Project Cool 2026 will benefit seniors served by Good Samaritan Community Services and Meals on Wheels, helping provide relief during periods of extreme summer temperatures.

Discover several creative and practical science tricks in this video! Learn how to make a waterproof match with hot glue for outdoor survival, create a compact matchbox from a Tic Tac container, and ...

Here are a few of our picks from the coolest experiments aboard the International Space Station — and they’re rewriting what we thought we knew. Psychology says people who eat very fast tend to have ...

We imagine that if global emissions are reduced, the problem will sort itself out. It actually takes much more time than we can imagine—sometimes hundreds or even thousands of years. We have entered a ...