After two decades of increases, the overall number of physics bachelor’s degrees awarded has declined for the fourth ...

(Inside Science) – “Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth,” sings Pharrell Williams in “Happy,” but the joyful sentiments in that 2013 hit are becoming rarer, according to a new analysis ...

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Shrinking the gasket seal and increasing the anvil hardness in a multi-anvil press raises sample pressures by 80%.

(Inside Science) -- In 1870, there were at least 10 million bison in the southern herd on the North American plains. Fewer than 20 years later, only 500 wild animals remained. That part of the story - ...

The department’s budget request proposes a $1.1 billion cut to the Office of Science, similar to last year’s request.

The Mpemba effect — named for a Tanzanian physics student who first observed it while making ice cream in 1963 — refers to the thermodynamics phenomenon of how hot substances or materials, such as ...

Terahertz modulation is essential for high-speed communication systems, but a long-standing trade-off between low insertion ...

In 1851, Leon Foucault began building pendulums. He realized they demonstrate Earth’s rotation, and his projects grew to include a 67-meter pendulum in the Pantheon of Paris, whose bob shifts about 2 ...

A gas mask in the hold of the Kiyosumi Maru, a Japanese ship sunk in the Chuuk Lagoon in the Federated States of Micronesia during World War II. (Inside Science) – “Metal pirates” are looting sunken ...

Women’s National Soccer Team forward Megan Rapinoe warms up for a game on May 26, 2019 in preparation for the 2019 Women’s World Cup. (Inside Science) -- Cristiane Rozeira’s left foot collided with ...