Power stations and generators are often mentioned in the same breath, but they occupy very different roles in the energy ...

Sometimes history doesn’t announce itself with fanfare or fireworks. It slips quietly into the world — in the form of a blood test, a needle, or a law passed in the final minutes of a long night at ...

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) such as ChatGPT has arrived in classrooms and sparked an intense debate about its role in education. These technologies raise the fundamental question of which ...

Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr had an ongoing rivalry about the true nature of quantum mechanics, and came up with a thought ...

Quantum technology is accelerating out of the lab and into the real world, and a new article argues that the field now stands ...

U.S. adults under 30 follow news less closely than any other age group. And they’re more likely to get (and trust) news from social media.

BAKERSFIELD, CA - Further cementing its legacy as a leading player in the produce arena, Sun World International recently ...

A single sewing needle is tiny enough to slip through fabric unnoticed, yet physics suggests that if it somehow struck Earth at light speed, the result would look less like a pinprick and more like a ...

Science, broadly speaking, deals with the study and understanding of natural phenomena, and is concerned with empirically (i.e., either observationally or experimentally) testable hypotheses advanced ...

There is a widespread misapprehension that controlling nuclear fusion is hard. In fact so long as you are not hoping to use the process to produce electricity, controlling fusion is easy. Indeed, it ...

In 1995, the United States recorded a $13 billion trade surplus in advanced technology products (ATPs). Three decades later, the balance has shifted sharply. According to the latest U.S. Census Bureau ...