NASA's record-setting spacecraft was just 3.8 million miles from the sun's surface—the closest any human-made object has ever ...

Remember that colorful plastic ring that swept through playgrounds and living rooms in the 1950s? The humble hula hoop might ...

Hula hooping is so commonplace that we may overlook some interesting questions it raises: "What keeps a hula hoop up against ...

Hula hooping has remained a staple of modern US culture since the 1950s, but people around the world have participated in ...

Hula hooping is so commonplace that we may overlook some interesting questions it raises: "What keeps a hula hoop up against gravity?" and "Are some ...

Radius Engineering published: “a versatile Resin Transfer Moulding (RTM) process for producing high quality aerospace ...

Scanning radioactive nuclear fuels and materials is the specialty of INL’s Irradiated Materials Characterization Lab, where Chuirazzi works. An array of shielding and other precautions is required to ...

In a recent study published in the journal Nature, researchers from Columbia Engineering have developed new nanoscale force ...

Researchers report that they have invented new nanoscale sensors of force. They are luminescent nanocrystals that can change intensity and/or color when you push or pull on them. These 'all-optical' ...

US-based researchers used photon avalanching nanoparticles (ANPs) to build sensors that can measure force over high dynamic ...

In New Orleans, Celebration Is Followed by Terror in the French Quarter The attack left 15 dead and about three dozen injured. The authorities described it as an act ...