At a flooded uranium mine in Germany, bacteria pulled off an extremely useful chemical trick. Given glycerol and 130 days ...

The Walden Pond Path circles the water where Henry David Thoreau conducted his famous experiment in simple living, and ...

For more than a century, physicists debated which way a submerged sprinkler sucking in water would spin. Careful experiments ...

The experiment was pretty controversial with the residents of Georgia, where the hurricane caused $2 million in damage.

The Netherlands has spent much of its history trying to keep rivers under control with higher dikes and stronger flood ...

There are several psychological reasons why some people reject scientific consensus. How distant one feels psychologically ...

There are lots of golf superstitions out there, but what pro golfer William Mouw did over the weekend was one of the more ...

Two seemingly identical neurons may not be identical after all. Discover the new theory that links their differences to the ...

Each summer, lawns are marked by a familiar addition: "silly sprinklers," whose loops and spirals spew water in creative ways ...

A lightweight robot modeled on diving birds can swim underwater, break through the surface, and continue flying without using ...

Researchers at New York University’s Courant Institute conducted a series of experiments with different silly sprinkler ...