While the average person would use a standard charger to top off their phone, [Tom Stanton] is no average man. Instead, he put mind to matter with an entire pendulum battery system. Using the ...

Gregor Mendel described his experiments with pea plants and proved that genes are transmitted in discrete units, with certain ...

Scientists have cracked a key mystery behind spider silk’s legendary strength and flexibility. They discovered that tiny ...

Simple home experiments that illustrate basic science make abstract concepts tangible. U-Va. board leaders resign as Spanberger and Democrats take power These restaurant chains plan to close locations ...

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The so-called desktop first appeared on a home computer in 1981, with the release of the Xerox 8010 Star Information System. That device pioneered the graphical-user interface, or G.U.I., a convenient ...

Simple physics may explain how the Easter Island statues could "walk" miles with only a handful of people, but the debate over their transport is far from over. When you purchase through links on our ...

Being more judicious in which AI models we use for tasks could potentially save 31.9 terawatt-hours of energy this year alone – equivalent to the output of five nuclear reactors. Tiago da Silva Barros ...

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Over the past decades, many research teams worldwide have been trying to detect dark matter, an elusive type of matter that does not emit, reflect or absorb light, using a variety of highly sensitive ...