When an electric toothbrush vibrates against BSCT, the material produces a small electric field—an effect known as ...

Metal structures usually have one simple rule: stay sealed or start sinking. Once water breaches the barrier, it’s game over.

The decoration was uncovered in 2024 by a metal detectorist scanning the dirt near Harlow, not far from London. It’s a ...

In the spring of 2023, a 33-year-old man arrived at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago with lungs that were rapidly shutting down. What started as a bout of influenza had spiraled into acute ...

Coronagraphs are telescopes equipped with an occulting disk to block out the overwhelming radiation emanated from the visible surface of the Sun, along with optical stops and filters that are ...

In the shadow of a coal mine in southern Greece, archaeologists discovered the oldest known handheld wooden tools ever found.

For years, the archetype of the American gun owner has remained remarkably consistent: largely white, conservative, and rural. But in the fractious political climate following the 2024 presidential ...

Only far smaller impacts have been observed directly. In 2013, a meteoroid weighing a few hundred kilograms struck the Moon, ...

Following graduation, Nicola was employed at the Japanese Aerospace eXploration Agency (JAXA), working on small and large ...

Between late 2022 and early 2023, five patients arrived at hospitals in Bangladesh with symptoms that screamed “Nipah virus.” They were feverish, struggling to breathe, and slipping into dangerous ...

Using high-resolution imagery from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, the AI analyzed the bedrock and boulder fields. It processed the same data humans use, but it worked faster, stringing together ...

According to the research, lead levels in human hair from residents of the Greater Salt Lake City region have plummeted by nearly 100-fold since the 1970s. The driving force behind this precipitous ...