If you feel like having one of your fundamental beliefs thrown out the window, try this on for size - under the right conditions, you can boil water until it freezes solid.

With postdoctoral researcher Marc Miskin at the helm, the team has made a robot exoskeleton that can rapidly change its shape upon sensing chemical or thermal changes in its environment. And, they claim, these microscale machines – equipped with elec ...

Updated results from a Japanese neutrino experiment continue to reveal an inconsistency in the way that matter and antimatter behave.

We asked a group of writers to consider the forces that have shaped our lives in 2017. Here, science fiction writer Ted Chiang looks at capitalism, Silicon Valley, and its fear of superintelligent AI.

The repeal of net-neutrality could mean new fees for internet companies. That's actually good news for the biggest among them.

On the interplay between freedom and responsibility.

An early Christmas art for my Brothers Moon <3

Astronomers are mystified by a strange star explosion in a distant galaxy that might be a relic from an earlier cosmological era.

Sex is extra strange if you're a shroom.

In an imaginary conversation with Guido Altarelli, I express my views on the status of particle physics beyond the standard Model and its future prospects.

A major drawback to 3-D printing -- the slow pace of the work -- could be alleviated through a software algorithm newly developed.

If you have been following 3D printing even for just a short amount of time, then you are probably aware that while one surprising innovation after another seems to pop up from every corner of the world, the technology has also been connected with so ...

Tatyana Felgenhauer, deputy editor of Ekho Moskvy radio station, in serious but not critical condition after attack

Inspired by the "OK KO Let's Be Heroes" episode "We've got fleas".

A paper-based flexible supercapacitor that could be used to help power wearable devices.

I'm in one of my misanthropic episodes.

he Women’s Liberation Front (WoLF) is a supposedly radical feminist activist group which, as noted by Pink News, shows “little evidence of campaigning on any women’s issues unrelated to trans…

Arthur C. Clarke warned us to attempt no landings on Europa in 2010: Odyssey Two, the 1982 the science fiction novel , when the Earth mission returns to the Jupiter to explore beneath the ice of Europa, nine years after...