On a cold Tuesday in London in 1926, a tallish but sickly and eccentric Scotsman invited members of Britain’s Royal Institution to look at a homemade contraption he had assembled and that he had been ...

OP-ED. For the 100th anniversary of television, the author of 'The Life Intense: A Modern Obsession' explains how the 20th ...

The fear now is that China will slowly kill the internal combustion engine by mass-producing cheaper electric cars.

We hope you enjoyed this look back at the last 100 years of television in science. From the early days of physicists ...

X-Rays are the amazing bits of the electro-magnetic spectrum that allow us to see through many objects — including human soft tissue. But when they were first publicly demonstrated on Jan. 23, 1896 — ...

In this article, we hear from three academic researchers about how their work using NMR spectroscopy at a reduced magnetic field is improving paramagnetic and metallic materials analysis and providing ...

LEO MCKINSTRY: Those allowing Britain's spirit of innovation to slide should heed the story of a true great.

Researchers have uncovered how atoms subtly rearrange themselves for up to a trillionth of a second before releasing ...

Scientific advances tend to be slow and meticulous affairs, built from incremental steps that eventually lead to a breakthrough. Such was the case with magnetic resonance imaging, which took decades ...

(1) TWO hypotheses have been propounded to explain the properties of the kathode rays. Some physicists think with Goldstein, Hertz, and Lenard, that this phenomenon is like light, due to vibrations of ...

How the polar vortex and warm ocean intensified a major US winter storm Mathew Barlow, UMass Lowell and Judah Cohen, ...