Researchers created sound that can bend itself through space, reaching only your ear in...
Jiaxin Zhong, Penn State and Yun Jing, Penn State
What if you could listen to music or a podcast without headphones or earbuds and without...
The push to restore semiconductor manufacturing faces a labor crisis − can the US...
Michael Moats, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Semiconductors power nearly every aspect of modern life – cars, smartphones, medical devices and even national defense...
Radioisotope generators − inside the ‘nuclear batteries’ that power faraway spacecraft
Benjamin Roulston, Clarkson University
Powering spacecraft with solar energy may not seem like a challenge, given how intense the Sun’s light can feel on Earth....
A Critical Deficit
Flawed thinking can lead us into a lifetime of pointless arguments and bad decisions. Fixing the problem won't be easy — but we know...
Daylight saving time and early school start times cost billions in lost productivity and...
Joanna Fong-Isariyawongse, University of Pittsburgh
Investigations into the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster revealed that key decision-makers worked on little sleep, raising concerns that fatigue...
As the US government removes health websites and data, here’s a list of non-government...
by Naseem S. Miller, The Journalist's Resource February 3, 2025
Last updated Feb. 15, 2025.
On Friday night, Dr. Gordon Schiff, the quality and safety director...
Concrete Poetry: Thomas Edison and the Almost-Built World
By Anthony Acciavatti
Historians often speak of “contingency”, by which they mean something like “things could have been otherwise”. But is this even true? It can...
