Peter and Susan Cull built their world-leading business from the ground up – literally.

Invented by accident in the 1920s, the unusual electronic instrument is hard to master but offers an enticing reward: freedom ...

This season produced strong hurricanes, but it was the first year in a decade without one making landfall in the U.S.

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A first ever detection of a coronal mass ejection from a small red dwarf could have big consequences for life on any nearby ...

Make sure your angles are in units of radians (not degrees), where 2π radians = 360 degrees. But after that you will get the ...

"In order to get such high sensitivity in the mid-infrared, one needs to go to space, as the atmosphere severely messes up ...

French scholars argued that the 17th-century Pascaline should go to a public collection and stay within the country. But a ...

An international team of scientists and students, led by the Arctic University of Norway, and including chemists and ...

On a remote coral reef near Papua New Guinea, endless streams of bubbles rise from cracks in the seabed into the shallow ...

In a cafe at CERN in 1992, three physicists realized they disagreed about how many constants are needed to describe all of nature. A recent paper suggests only one – time – is necessary.