This kind of thinking would be as important as science for the invention of the transistor. Edison's discovery that current can travel through a vacuum didn't turn out to be very useful ...

A team of Scottish scientists successfully slowed down a single photon, or particle of light, even as it moved through a vacuum, as described in their 2015 study published in the journal Science.

Science News and our parent organization, the Society for Science, need your help to strengthen environmental literacy and ensure that our response to climate change is informed by science.