This episode documents the moment a giant magnet uncovered evidence that changed a simple magnet fishing day into a police matter. Rusted and buried under years of mud, the find carried signs of a ...

Despite being one of the most familiar substances on Earth, water holds many secrets that scientists are still working to ...

It was a reminder that not all discoveries come from the water. Sometimes the biggest surprise is how others react to magnet ...

New studies of the “platypus of materials” help explain how their atoms arrange themselves into orderly, but nonrepeating, ...

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HydroSpread, a breakthrough fabrication method, lets scientists build ultrathin soft robots directly on water. These tiny, ...

The left image shows a crystal structure of dynamic water molecule cluster like liquid at −20 °C in the supercooled water state revealed previously by X-ray structural analysis. The right image shows ...

Researchers at Rice University created a soft but sturdy material that can transform in the blink of an eye when exposed to a basic handheld magnet—and then stabilize with no batteries or electricity.

Water, though familiar, still hides astonishing secrets. When squeezed into nanosized channels, it can enter a bizarre ...

Despite being one of the most familiar substances on Earth, water holds many secrets that scientists are still working to understand. When confined to ...

Sadly, it is time again to change the crankcase oil on my Old Butterscotch Mercedes this week. A simple chore on a ...

Kinetic energy has to do with the motion of an object—the faster it’s moving, the more kinetic energy it has. If you take a ...