Science

By the time Scotland’s Hunterston B nuclear power station closed in January of this year, its dual reactors had produced...

As an old saying goes, you can't fight city hall, meaning government. But the people of St. James Parish, La.,...

Metal pipes beneath the floor provide enough local disturbance of Earth’s magnetic field for an autonomous robot to work out...

Really, the only difference is that this is a downward-curving path with the center of this circular curve below the...

When dolphins swim through the ocean, it looks effortless. By whipping their tail up and down, the sleek marine mammals...

Measuring a quantum object makes it lose its odd quantum properties, and it only takes between 0.1 billionth of a...

The Crispr components can’t naturally get into cells on their own, so Intellia uses a delivery system called lipid nanoparticles—essentially...

As if dainty, iridescent fairies are racing around a cosmic track, Neptune’s rings sparkle in a stunning new view captured...

In mock-ups of the female reproductive tract, bull sperm cluster in groups of two to four, which seems to help...

And when you factor in a van’s price, the cost of fuel, insurance, and depreciation, plus parking fines and congestion...

Christopher Intagliata: When paleoanthropologists eat lunch with biomechanists… well, sometimes the small talk can get pretty technical. Adam Van Casteren:...

Reanalysis of icy rock grains from a ring of Saturn – fed by ice plumes from its moon Enceladus –...

But utilities will likely play the biggest role in ushering in a new era of electricity grids, says Max Baumhefner,...

The United States holds enough oil, gas and coal in reserves to burn through the world’s remaining carbon budget and...

A fungal skin disease that caused amphibian numbers to plummet in Costa Rica and Panama lowered the number of amphibian...

In the late 1970s, a physicist and textiles engineer in Texas named Robert Steadman published a paper called “The Assessment...