(Inside Science) -- America has a new leech -- new to science, that is. In fact, the big orange-bellied bloodsucker has been lurking around the nation's capital all along, according to Anna Phillips, ...

(Inside Science) – The 2015 Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to a Japanese physicist and a Canadian physicist for discovering that abundant subatomic particles known as neutrinos can undergo ...

(Inside Science) -- Even though he works with spiders regularly, Yao Zhang, a physicist at Jinan University in China, admits he's afraid of them. In fact, most of the people in his lab are, except for ...

A mystery that captivated the internet has a simple answer. At least, that’s what Colgate says.

(Inside Science) -- Fascinating photos of planets, stars and galaxies come together in this month’s astronomy slideshow. Check out recent snapshots of the swirling gases of Saturn and Jupiter, view a ...

(Inside Science TV) – In the wizarding world of Harry Potter, photographs are not the staid still-life images we’re accustomed to: framed portraits talk to one another, and celebrities smile and preen ...

(Inside Science) -- Phosphorus, the 15th element, courses through the tree of life. It is a building block in DNA, RNA, cell membranes and bones. But because it is so scarce on the Earth's surface, ...

(Inside Science) -- Ever heard of a snap fit? It's kind of a fancy way to describe two pieces of (usually) plastic that fit or snap together. If you take look around your house, you'll probably see ...

(Inside Science) -- Megan Povey has spent half a century building a reputation as a food physicist. She has shown how sound waves can be used as a tool to study food properties, to test food quality ...

1. Solar flare - a buildup of magnetic energy on the surface of the sun that is suddenly released through the ejection of charged particles into space 2. Solar cycle - the 11-year cycle of solar ...

Scientists have crushed the quest for room temperature superconductors, but only at ridiculously high pressures.

(Inside Science) -- It took years of painstaking work for Carlos Souza and his colleagues to map out every road in the Brazilian Amazon biome. Official maps of the 4.2 million-square-kilometer region ...