Scientists are largely clueless about the origins of static electricity. A quirky group of researchers aims to change that.

University of Birmingham scientists have developed a new material that changes from a gel to a liquid-like state under ...

In July 1983, a newspaper in India published an anonymous letter claiming that the virus that causes AIDS had been engineered ...

Le Point profiles Kyriakos Pierrakakis, highlighting his rise from Greek reformer to Eurogroup president and his vision for Europe's economic future.

Traditional disease risk factors that are inexpensive and easy to measure, such as body mass index, waist-to-hip ratio, ...

Strength and mobility tests are often touted as measurements of healthy aging and even predictors of longevity, but they’re no crystal ball.

A study of 143 piercing tools, from tusks to love darts, finds they trade off piercing ability for durability. And no one ...

The purpose of perspiration was a mystery in 1775, when English physician Charles Brian Blagden and a few inquisitive friends ...

Researchers at Rice University have found that gently squeezing a crystal of iron sulfide can change two of its unusual ...

Science communications minor teaches College students to ditch the jargon to bridge the gap between research and the real world ...

Crackaboom! A big thunderclap from a passing storm shakes the ground. Researchers have now found that these ‘thunderquakes’ ...