Thomas Mulligan delves into the fascinating ways biological systems uphold complex organization while remaining perfectly ...

Engineers and architects around the world have pushed construction to its absolute limits, creating buildings that look ...

The Federal Government on Tuesday announced plans to abolish the long-standing policy separating junior secondary schools ...

The UN climate panel’s own assessment puts the likely warming from a doubling of carbon dioxide somewhere between 2.5 and 4 ...

The mechanical process of cell division exerts powerful, if microscopic, forces. How do the molecular machines that power it ...

The Press Herald talked to 8 educators who spend their summers leading history tours, waiting tables, working Sea Dogs games ...

A study published in Nature Physics provides new molecular-level evidence from simulations that liquid water is not a single uniform substance, but a constantly shifting mixture of two distinct ...

One of the most basic and accepted truths about the universe is that it’s pretty much the same everywhere you look. In other ...

People use their bodies—not just their brains—to think. So the MIT Project on Embodied Education brings movement to the ...

Fourteen years ago this week, the most anticipated IPO in a generation opened with a 30-minute delay and a crisis that took months to sort out. On May 18, 2012, Facebook sold 421 million shares at $38 ...

Can light behave like a whirlwind? It turns out it can—and such "optical tornadoes" have now been created in an extremely small structure by scientists from the Faculty of Physics at the University of ...