With all the advancements smartwatches have made in a relatively short space of time, it can sometimes be easy to forget about their most basic function: telling you the time. Our wrists are now ...

Among the experiments and supplies delivered to the International Space Station (ISS) today was a new spectrometer instrument that could help show how small particles of dust can have a big impact on ...

Princeton researchers have uncovered new rules governing how objects absorb and emit light, fine-tuning scientists' control over light and boosting research into next-generation solar and optical ...

Internal combustion passenger cars get a bad reputation for a very good reason. Those platinum-packed, performance-choking catalytic converters exist for a purpose, of course. But too often, ICE is ...

On Thursday, the space agency lofted more than 5,800 pounds of cargo to the International Space Station. This shipment included several science experiments, such as the Suture in Space project. EMIT ...

NASA'S EMIT mission, placed on the International Space Station to learn how dust storms on Earth warm or cool the planet, has created the first complete maps of the world's dust source regions, ...

NASA didn’t plan for its Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) instrument to do much about climate change when the device first hitched a ride to space. But roughly a year and a half ...

In the Mediterranean, it’s called “Sirocco,” and in the Canary Islands, “La Calima,” while it goes by “Harmattan” in West Africa, and “Haboob” in Sudan. But these varied names all describe the same ...