An application that can tap into a smartphone’s built-in barometer can be a helpful tool for teaching students about Stevin’s ...

A modern materials study suggests that Thomas Edison’s early light bulb experiments may have unknowingly produced graphene decades before the material was formally theorized or isolated. Thomas Edison ...

A tiny worm turns static electricity into a powerful weapon, launching itself through the air to catch flying prey.

Some time around 1683, amateur Dutch scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek scraped the plaque from between his teeth and peered ...

Naveen Nicholas, director of school education, said “Science education must stay experiential and inquiry-based.” ...

Moon dust is sharp, corrosive, and potentially fatal. NASA’s new electric force field shield is designed to blast it away.

A century after Nikola Tesla sketched a turbine with no blades, researchers are now using that same counterintuitive design to pull useful power out of static electricity. The latest experiments pair ...

Researchers have discovered that ferroelectric fluids can harness an overlooked transverse electrostatic force (TEF) to rise over 80 mm, without magnets or high voltages. By exploiting the fluid’s ...

Chalmers researchers have developed a simple, light-based platform to study the mysterious “invisible glue” that binds materials at the nanoscale. Gold flakes floating in salt water reveal how quantum ...

Wanqing Meng is in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117575, and the Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. OKALOOSA COUNTY, Fla. (WKRG) — Eglin Air Force Base is home to some air defense experiments this month, causing the waters off of ...