Mars may have once had an ocean so vast that it covered one-third of the planet before evaporating billions of years ago and ...

Harnessing heat generated by a device itself, microscopic silicon structures could lead to more energy-efficient thermal ...

Scientists believe they found fresh proof of an ancient ocean on Mars in the form of a “bathtub ring” it left after it dried ...

In the quirky quantum world, particles can be affected by forces that they never directly encounter. A classic example is the ...

As cars become rolling computers, some drivers are heading in the opposite direction. Early-2000s vehicles are suddenly ...

For math, chalk is very effective for a number of reasons,” said Duke Professor of Mathematics Ezra Miller. Miller said using chalk forces him to be deliberate about what – and in what order – he ...

The folks at Evil Mad Scientist Labs just put up a post on the giant mechanical binary computer they brought to last month’s Maker Faire. As a faithful reproduction of the Digi-Comp II from the 1960s, ...

‘90s nostalgia is trending harder than ever at the moment, and that extends to tech. Back in 1998, Apple founder Steve Jobs and legendary designer Jony Ive introduced the iMac G3 in a transparent ...

These compact Edifier speakers may not be the fanciest, but they’ll blow your monitor’s built-in speakers out of the water. Edifier has a pedigree and a long history of making great, compact speakers.

The painting on the left is an artist’s conception of a plume eruption on Saturn’s moon Enceladus. The image on the right is a photo of two researchers in the Utah desert collecting effluent from the ...

Understanding liquid states of water at very low temperatures is important for earth sciences and biology but is difficult because supercooled liquid water is very unstable. A new computational study ...

CU Boulder researchers have introduced a solution to improving the performance of large-scale desalination plants: stimulated Raman scattering (SRS). Published Dec. 16 in the journal Environmental ...