Immediately after a 19-year-old shot and killed 17 people and wounded 17 others at a Florida high school on Valentine’s Day, people leaped to explain what had caused the latest mass slaughter. By now, ...

Scientists have discovered a rogue planet roaming the Milky Way after combining observations from Earth and a space telescope ...

While most planets that we are familiar with stick relatively close to their host star in a predictable orbit, some planets ...

The masses of fundamental particles such as the Z and W bosons could have arisen from the twisted geometry of hidden ...

In science, there are thousands of ways to measure the world around us that the average person may never encounter. For example: Pascals to measure pressure, Candles to measure light intensity, and ...

BOSTON (CBS) -- A California think tank has named Massachusetts number one on their State Technology and Science Index-- again. Mass. has held the top slot since 2002. The Milken Institute creates ...

There’s something amiss with a mass. A new measurement of the mass of an elementary particle, the W boson, has defied expectations. The result hints at a possible flaw in physicists’ otherwise ...

Southbridge teacher Jillian Lombardi has been named as the only teacher in Massachusetts to receive the Milken Educator Award in the 2024-25 season, state officials said Friday. The prestigious ...

A group of about 30 scientists and citizens concerned about promoting science and making it accessible to the general public met for the 2019 Western Massachusetts March for Science. The participants ...

WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts science museum has opened an exhibit on a very topical subject — vaccines. Officials at the EcoTarium Museum of Science and Nature in Worcester hope that the ...