The science pros at TKOR safely show missile-style launches and a piñata explosion test.

It’s the most wonderful time of year… for staring down the pile of presents you were so generously given for Christmas and working out which ones you actually want to keep. A little harsh? Perhaps.

James Meek’s latest novel manages to combine the cerebral and the sensitive with great elegance, writes Stuart Kelly ...

Mickey Lolich, who had three complete-game victories for the Detroit Tigers in the 1968 World Series, has died.

Scientists are uncovering new clues that a cosmic explosion may have rocked Earth at the end of the last ice age. At major Clovis-era sites, researchers found shocked quartz—evidence of intense heat ...

On Jan. 28, 1986, NASA’s 25th space shuttle mission, Challenger, left the launchpad in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Seventy-three seconds into flight, Challenger exploded over the Atlantic Ocean as ...