Microplastics are the crumbs of our plastic world, tiny pieces that come from bigger items breaking apart or from products like synthetic clothing and packaging. They’re now everywhere. Scientists ...

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 ...

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, ...

Researchers studied how water splits under strong electric fields to reveal mechanisms that influence electrolysis and ...

Saddle systems improve every year. What once seemed like a niche piece of gear that lived in the periphery of more mainstream whitetail hunting alternatives, saddle hunting is the beneficiary of the ...

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 ...

Scientists have developed HydroSpread, a novel technique for building soft robots on water, with wide-ranging possibilities ...

For 25 years, my brother Todd and I ran a family roofing business that became a household name in our town of Columbus, Ohio.

Kyoto Fusioneering is developing two next-generation breeder-blanket structural materials. One is a family of vanadium alloys ...

Maui’s native seabird fledglings, including ‘Ua’u (Hawaiian Petrel) and ‘A’o (Newell’s Shearwater), navigate by the moon and stars as they leave their mountain burrows and fly out to sea.