Well, science and baseball. Physicists build models to explain how the world works. It might be an equation, like the ideal ...

A weird 20-legged machine could change how scientists think about the ideal robot form. For decades, roboticists have been ...

Sperm cells move through fluids that should stop them almost instantly, yet new research suggests they succeed by exploiting unusual properties of active living matter.

At Flinders University, scientists have cracked a cleaner and greener way to extract gold—not just from ore, but also from our mounting piles of e-waste. By using a compound normally found in pool ...

Oak trees have a surprising trick to fight back against hungry caterpillars: they simply wait. When trees are heavily attacked one year, they delay leaf growth by just three days the next spring—long ...

Whether the dust borne on the violent winds of a tornado or the sugar grains in a swirled cup of coffee, the behavior of ...

If you are more invested in monitoring your health than tracking body fat percentage, the Withings Body Scan is truly a top ...

Soils store carbon, sustain ecosystems, and underpin global food and water systems. A new Frontiers in Science paper details ...

Developers like to code. They declare variables, write methods and integrate classes together. What developers aren't big on is configuration. It's a hassle to configure an application so that it can ...

The unseasonably hot weather has already claimed at least 18 lives and history shows more are likely on the way.

Chinese researchers say they have developed a crocodile-inspired ceramic body armour that can deflect projectiles and potentially offer a low-cost alternative for lightweight ballistic protection. The ...