Science

Researchers now believe one in 20 people will have a near-death experience. A professor who has spent the past 50 years studying the phenomenon says people typically describe similar experiences. Joan Fowler, 63, says she had a near-death experience almost 35 years ago. She was cycling down the Pacific Coast Highway when she was hit by a truck. She remembers…

Quantum computing is a very complex and emerging field, and finding classes on it is hard when you’re young. Two Northern Virginia high school students are trying to change that. News4’s Megan McGrath reports.

Scientists with the Schmidt Ocean Institute believe the reefs are thousands of years old.

It’s almost Halloween, which means scary movies and haunted houses are all around. But what does your brain tell your body when you get spooked, and why? News4’s Maggie More reports.

Heman Bekele, a freshman at Woodson High School in Northern Virginia, spent his summer break working to cure cancer. He was named “America’s Top Young Scientist” for creating a bar of soap designed to fight low-grade skin cancer. “I wanted to try to find a way for the entire world to be able to have an equitable and accessible...

Fairfax County ninth grader Heman Bekele was named America’s top young scientist after he created a soap designed to treat low-grade skin cancer. News4’s Aimee Cho reports.

The Psyche mission is the first time the space agency has sent a probe to a world primarily made of metal, rather than rocks and ice.

Chromhidrosis is a disorder of the sweat glands that manifests with colored sweat on the face, in the underarms, or on the areola of the breasts.

Researchers at Columbia University studied data from alcohol-related and substance-related hospital visits in New York State over 20 years.

Scientists started to realize all these hominins weren’t our direct ancestors. Instead, they were more like our cousins: lineages that split off from a common source and headed in different directions

Among the winners was Jan Zalasiewicz of Poland who earned the chemistry and geology prize for explaining why many scientists like to lick rocks.

Researchers found a link between sedentary lifestyles and chronic illnesses that are linked with increased dementia risk.

Boogie boarders caught some waves in bioluminescence at Huntington Beach, Calif., on Sept. 5.

At age 11, Linda Pistun has already started taking college courses and has big dreams of working on the Mars mission. Over her summer, she wrote a children’s book sharing her love of science. News4’s Jummy Olabanji talks to the young scientist about her accomplishments.

The University of Maryland is celebrating a group of engineering students who took home the top prize in a competition, after designing a cutting-edge search-and-rescue drone. News4’s Dominique Moody reports.

Some paper and bamboo straws contain so-called “forever chemicals” that could make them a less-than-ideal alternative to plastic, researchers have found.

The balloon came equipped with a GoPro camera to record the journey, as well as some snacks — but not for eating on the way.

The children from the Taft Houses NYCHA complex sent a balloon into the atmosphere and caught the whole journey on GoPro video.

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson says that he’s calculated where life in plastic exists.

Every year on August 8, an astrological event called the Lion’s Gate Portal “opens” in the sky.