A robot being developed at Duke University is almost ready to face the world, in any direction. Instead of trying to copy ...

It’s a Thursday afternoon in Los Angeles, and I’m walking side-by-side with Betye Saar, the legendary Angeleno assemblage artist and central figure of the West Coast Black Arts movement. She’s wearing ...

Florida leads the nation in lightning fatalities. Here’s how to stay safe as lightning activity picks up this rainy season.

When students are dysregulated, asking them to focus can be counterproductive. Instead, build in activities that help them ...

Over billions of years, a planet will have encountered all the small bodies in its vicinity enough times to clear its orbit of them.

Discover how object storage with flat IDs and rich metadata delivers cloud‑scale performance and cheap unstructured data parking compared to traditional file systems for modern workloads. Pixabay, ...

This file’s strongest hook is not a glowing orb or a radar blip. It is a veteran NASA astronaut with a stacked résumé saying he saw something in orbit that looked and moved like a space snake or space ...

To understand gravity, Einstein had to rethink space and time as a single connected fabric. He showed that mass bends this fabric, guiding how everything moves. NOVA is available to stream on pbs.org ...

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (WBKO) -You have probably been out on a windy day hearing the wind howling or maybe it got your hair messed up, or you had to hold on to your hat. At some point, you might have even ...

In his classic science-fiction story “The New Accelerator,” published in 1901, H. G. Wells describes a drug that speeds up a person’s metabolism by a factor of 1,000. For the two protagonists who ...

When you go for a walk, how does your brain know the difference between a parked car and a moving car? This seemingly simple distinction is challenging because eye movements, such as the ones we make ...