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Capturing energy from clubbers could help power homes and buildings.
We have long thought that Pluto was completely frozen solid, but the discovery of cryovolcanoes challenges that assumption.
Could we finally detect the elusive Unruh effect?
Many contemporary composers live in the shadow of Bach and Beethoven, even though they’re just as interesting to listen to.
The so-called "court painter of Silicon Valley" was shaped by her youth in communist Poland but looks forward to a future ruled by celebrity robots.
Meet the power plant of the future.
Here’s how it works.
It was supposed to have a 5.5-10 year lifetime, and take 6 months to calibrate. It's performing better than anyone anticipated.
Elastic thinking can reveal the assumptions that hamstring our ability to solve seemingly intractable problems.
Every timekeeping device works via a version of a pendulum — even the atomic clocks that are accurate to nanoseconds.
From mobile learning to microlearning, these five methods for training employees are some of the most effective in the modern world of business.
Two types of nanotechnology, metalenses and metamaterials, could soon make Harry Potter's invisibility cloak a reality.
Today, we could use Big Data to radically reform democracy. Tomorrow, we could build nanofabricators and usher in an era of abundance. Is society ready?
Nanofabricators could quickly synthesize whatever we need, molecule by molecule.
Spin, spin, spin — fire! The startup’s radical system could make satellite launches cheaper and cleaner.
Benjamin Franklin's lightning rod saved countless lives, but some religious leaders denounced his invention.
A lucky discovery involving lithium-sulfur batteries has a legitimate chance to revolutionize how we power our world.
A new, easy-to-use, $5-device helps address male infertility. It isolates healthy sperm cells based on their natural behavior.
Standard probiotics cannot compare to the diversity that your microbes have.
This representation of the Bamum kingdom is a rare example of early 20th-century indigenous African cartography.
A community in Austin, Texas is using geothermal energy to keep homes warm in the winter and cool in the summer.
Small spiders use their silk threads to passively fly, a process called ballooning. Learning how could help atmospheric scientists.
A radical redesign of commercial aircraft, called the flying-V plane, could increase fuel efficiency by 20%, greatly reducing emissions.
On Nov. 13, 1946, a scientist dropped crushed dry ice from a plane into supercooled stratus clouds.
By toppling medieval Europe’s mightiest political power, the Protestant Reformation ushered in a new age of freedom, religious and otherwise.
Javelin missiles have been an effective force multiplier, the latter-day equivalent of the sling that David used against Goliath.
Michio Kaku predicts, among other things, how we'll build cities on Mars and why cancer will one day be like the common cold.
When we started imaging the Universe with Hubble, every star had four "spikes" coming from it. Here's why Webb will have more.
Can stories help us become more creative?