The remarkable silk used by net-casting spiders to snare prey is both highly elastic and exceptionally strong, offering clues for designing synthetic materials.

Your next computer might not be a phone or a watch, it could be the shirt on your back. A team of researchers at Fudan ...

Scientists in China have created a flexible, thread-like "fiber chip" that can be woven into fabric, opening the door to ...

A new anthology on plastics in art reveals the philosophical conundrums and contradictions at the heart of a material the ...

Changing engine oil is a maintenance item that users can do themselves at home to save money. However, in reality, many cases of "saving money in the short term, paying the price later" occur due to ...

The Pacific Ring of Fire is living up to its name, with scientists tracking a chain of restless faults and volcanoes that circle the Pacific Ocean. From Alaska to Kamchatka and down to the Oregon ...

Debris and mud cover a city in Japan flattened by a massive tsunami in March 2011, caused by the energy released by a ...

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When producer Grace Tatter sees a video of a man claiming that he's continuously ordering and returning an 110-pound anvil from Amazon with no repercussions, she has questions. Is this... Adam Aleksic ...

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Neutron scattering has several characteristic features, some of which are advantageous to X-ray scattering: 7 (1) wavelength suitable for nanometer-scale structural analysis (diffraction), (2) ...

In Tunisia, migrant women give birth in precarious conditions, exposing their newborns to illness and malnutrition. Accused of contributing to a so-called “demographic change” within the country, they ...