Leiden physicists Daniela Kraft and Julio Melio have created soft structures that can take on different shapes without any external drive in their lab. They present their research on microscale ...

When the supercontinent Pangea began to fragment around 200 million years ago during the Early Jurassic, it reshaped the face of the planet. Vast new oceans opened, continents drifted apart and the ...

The Moon, long treated as a geologically inert relic, is still contracting and cracking. A growing body of peer-reviewed research now confirms that tectonic faulting on the lunar surface has occurred ...

The Moon, long treated as a geologically dead world, is producing seismic activity from sources that scientists are only now beginning to identify. Reanalysis of decades-old Apollo seismic records, ...

Adam Aaronson’s tough themeless puzzle will get your head spinning. By Caitlin Lovinger SATURDAY PUZZLE — Adam Aaronson is a steady contributor to The New York Times’s daily crosswords and has ...

Simply sign up to the Chinese economy myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. China’s factory activity returned to growth in December, snapping a record eight-month contraction as Beijing ...

So, you want to buy a thermal scope for hunting, but you don’t know where to start. We’re going to make it easy on you by picking our three top recommendations at three price and performance tiers.

In theory, clip-on scopes should be the thermal that every hunter wants, needs, and easily deploys. These are accessories to traditional rifles and daylight scopes, and if they don’t exactly “clip on” ...

Tire Options Will Keep Drivers', Teams' Minds Racing Sunday at Thermal Drivers said Saturday that teams could make anywhere from two to four pit stops during the race Sunday depending on tire wear at ...

Eccentric Muscle Contraction: A type of muscle contraction in which, despite activation of motor units and the production of force, the external resistance forces the muscle to lengthen. This occurs ...

Isometric Muscle Contraction: A type of muscle contraction in which activation of motor units and the production of force does not result in joint motion or a change in muscle length. This occurs when ...