Editor’s Note: In this weekly series, LiveScience explores how technology drives scientific exploration and discovery. Ever since Robert Hooke first made his beautiful sketches of magn... Read more
More than 1,000 people had gathered at 6 a.m. in a nearby parking lot to watch the planned implosion at the plant owned by Pacific Gas and Electric in Bakersfield. After structures on the pr... Read more
In the last 11 years, the number of federally mandated tests in our nation’s public schools has nearly tripled. Principals, teachers, and students all feel the pressure of these high-s... Read more
Scientists have discovered a burrow in South Africa where two unlikely creatures shared a home before being entombed by a flash flood 250 million years ago. The strange bedfellows wer... Read more