Science

The moon may be more than 100 million years older than some scientists previously thought, according to a new study.

On this Science 4 Everyone, Storm Team4 Meteorologist (and Science Teacher!) Ryan Miller explains why we get brilliant displays of sunrises and sunsets during certain times of the day and year.

On this Science 4 Everyone, Storm Team4 Meteorologist (and Science Teacher!) Ryan Miller explains the process of pickling vegetables and fruits and how it helps preserve them. 

Before we can understand why the sky looks bluer in the fall, it’s important to first know why the sky appears blue in the first place.

On this Science 4 Everyone, Storm Team4 Meteorologist (and Science Teacher!) Ryan Miller shows how big or small other states and countries actually are when put on top of another on a map. 

On this Science 4 Everyone, Storm Team4 Meteorologist (and Science Teacher!) Ryan Miller explains why residents might see less acorns this year and how spring weather has a role. 

On this Science 4 Everyone, Storm Team4 Meteorologist (and Science Teacher!) Ryan Miller explains why radiation fog forms on the ground, especially in the fall. 

The Infinite Monkey Theorem is “grossly misleading in the real world,” one of the Australian mathematicians behind a new study questioning the age-old maxim told NBC News.

NASA is no stranger to spacefaring robots. But “Robonaut 2,” the first human-shaped robot to fly to the International Space Station, is something special. The robot is now on display at the Udvar-Hazy center in Virginia.

A brand new exhibit is coming to the Udvar-Hazy Center in Virginia. NASA is loaning a humanoid robot to the Smithsonian for the first time.

There may be a psychological reason why some people aren’t just wrong in an argument — they’re confidently wrong. 

On this Science 4 Everyone, Storm Team4 Meteorologist (and Science Teacher!) Ryan Miller explains why the leaves change color during the fall and why chlorophyll has an important role in the process. 

NOAA issued a severe geomagnetic storm alert on Wednesday after an outburst from the sun was detected earlier in the week. Here’s why they were visible in many parts of the U.S.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry to David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper for their work with proteins.

The District is officially on “panda watch” as we all wait for the two newest giant pandas to arrive from China. As the buzz builds, no one is more excited than the zookeepers and conservation biologists like Melissa Songer who work with the pandas at the National Zoo.

Two new giant pandas are about to make the National Zoo their home, and a Smithsonian National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute biologist is sharing her knowledge about the bears. News4’s Tommy McFly reports. Produced by Haleigh Hoffman.

A new exhibit lets visitors jump straight into the strangest layer of the ocean, bringing the creatures that live in the “twilight zone” to the surface of ARTECHOUSE’S walls.

On this Science 4 Everyone, Storm Team4 Meteorologist (and Science Teacher!) Ryan Miller explains the mind trick that our brains play on us that makes it seem like the moon is bigger on the horizon than it actually is. 

A new moon will be pulled into Earth’s orbit by the end of September, but it won’t stay there forever. Here’s why.

Archaeologists in Iowa unearthed parts of a mastodon fossil, including its skull, that they believe dates back to when the first humans lived on Earth.