“Glass as a structural material kind of breaks people’s brains a little bit,” said researcher Michael Stern in a statement.

T he entire human genome – all 3 billion or so base pairs – has been stored on a tiny, 5D memory crystal built to last for ...

Thus, it appears cats have an awareness that their bodies are a finite height, and assess short but wide holes to see if they ...

Arguably the best example of this engineering marvel exists in modern-day Iran, where the technology was invented over 3,000 ...

A sk a child to draw water and, armed with crayons, they will make it blue. However, many adults would consider water to be colorless. The blue hue that large bodies of water have is not simply a ...

“So far Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS looks like a fuzzy star to the naked eye looking out the cupola windows. But with a 200mm, f2 ...

“The small jellyfish will sting, but the fish will build immunity to the toxin,” explained photographer Katherine Lu in a ...

For a century we’ve been doing the most important industrial chemical process the same way, and a change may come in the nick ...

According to the Instagram account of Monterey Bay Whale Watch, the birds in the video being thrown around by the killer whales are common murres ( Uria aalge) a species that nests in large colonies ...

The near-infrared camera of JWST highlights the connection between the two galaxies, sensitive to the emission of the stars and gas stretching between the two objects. But JWST also observed the ...

Tasselled wobbegongs ( Eucrossorhinus dasypogon) are actually carpet sharks with long, flat bodies that blend into the coral ...

W e have known about the phenomenon of static electricity since at least the time of Aristotle. Aristotle credits fellow philosopher Thales of Miletus, who lived between 640 and 546 BCE, with the ...