Of course, the rest is history. Archimedes had a bath and the original Eureka moment, streaked naked down the street, and ...

Gauging the mass of a black hole is tricky, but astronomers have devised multiple methods to measure the heft of these galactic gluttons ...

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Computer Science and Engineering Ph.D. student Nayan Bhatia demonstrates Pulse-Fi, technology that uses WiFi signals to measure a person's heart rate. Heart rate is one of the most basic and important ...

Nebraska activists have filed an initiative to legalize marijuana and establish a constitutional right to use cannabis for adult over the age of 21. If organizers collect enough valid signatures from ...

Researchers with the Kentucky Geological Survey at the University of Kentucky are hoping to use devices normally meant to monitor earthquake activity to identify when tornadoes touch down. Kentucky ...

Southwest Airlines on Friday began flying its first jetliner built with a secondary flight deck barrier designed to prevent intrusions in a design change that's been ...

Fixing climate change is no small task — just ask carbon removal developers like Mitti Labs. The New York-based startup has developed technology to measure how much methane is released by rice paddies ...

A group of surgeons has proposed measuring how often hospitals discharge post-surgical patients to nursing homes as a way to rate quality. The goal would be to reduce post-acute admissions and save ...

So far this year, electricity use in the US is up nearly 4 percent compared to the same period the year prior. That comes after decades of essentially flat use, a change that has been associated with ...

Peer ReviewDownload a summary of the editorial decision process including editorial decision letters, reviewer comments and author responses to feedback. Drought stress significantly impacts plant ...

A behemoth of a bluefin tuna was caught in Nantucket this week. The crew from Topspin Fishing charters boated a 1,000+ pound bluefin tuna on Monday. Early Summer through the Fall is peak tuna fishing ...