Blink and you might miss it, but if you keep your eye on the monitors in professor Sebastian Will's lab, you'll catch a ...

There's a magnet in a secure room in central Tokyo. It's an electromagnet, the kind that generates a magnetic field when electrical current flows through it. The last time the scientists who operate ...

Researchers at Johns Hopkins have developed a new energy-efficient technology that is an alternative to traditional compressor-based refrigeration.

William Bain admitted abusing 11 boys aged between 11 and 14 at private school across the country.

A unique new material that shrinks when it is heated and expands when it is cooled could help enable the ultra-stable space ...

A new material called Alloy 30 shrinks when it is heated and expands when it is cooled and it could help with telescope ...

Because it shrinks when other materials expand, Allvar Alloy 30 can be used to strategically compensate for the expansion and contraction of other materials. The alloy’s unique NTE property and lack ...

In a dark corner of a guest house in Helgoland, a diary by Werner Heisenberg has been discovered, describing how he developed ...

To quantify how well bedding keeps a person warm, scientists use a unit called “clo” (short for “clothing”). One clo equals ...

Scientists at the University of Michigan have unlocked a long-standing mystery about quasicrystals exotic materials that straddle the line between the orderly structure of crystals and the chaos of ...

It’s hard to find anyone in the sport of cycling with a career and accolades as varied as Lennard Zinn. Zinn is a ...

Commuting to Concordia research station in Antarctica takes days—it’s more remote than the International Space Station. Here’s how to get there.