At first glance, some scientific research can seem, well, impractical. When physicists began exploring the strange, subatomic world of quantum mechanics a century ago, they weren't trying to build ...

André O. Hudson receives funding from the National Institutes of Health. We asked André O. Hudson, a biochemist and microbiologist at the Rochester Institute of Technology, to explain how basic ...

Simple home experiments that illustrate basic science make abstract concepts tangible.