How London’s Crystal Palace was built so quickly
New study finds it was the earliest-known building to use a standard screw thread.
New study finds it was the earliest-known building to use a standard screw thread.
Multi-species machine-learning model can unlock insights into new whale species.
"Clients and artists have a right to know what's in the inks they are using.”
Scientists matched DNA of living descendent to Capt. James Fitzjames of the HMS Erebus.
The custom-made caps hold electrodes in place and reduce motion artifacts during EEGs.
"To stop the assassin, you must become the assassin."
Prototypes control fluid flow in a preferred direction with no need for moving parts.
"There are no clever tricks to get around the necessary diet and exercise."
"You have something in you. Rage. Never let it go."
"Everyone here has done bad things. Someone wants us gone."
But Geneva-based organization will retain ties with Joint Institute for Nuclear Research.
Ars chats with Ben Orlin about his new book, Math for English Majors.
"Let's blow up these second-hand baloney boys."
Scientists measured scaling of the brush strokes to arrive at their conclusions.
Origins of Hounds and Jackals, aka Fifty-Eight Holes, may lie in Asia rather than Egypt.
"This world can't survive if you stay together."
The award ceremony features miniature operas, scientific demos, and the 24/7 lectures.
Co-author Gordon Pennycook: "The work overturns a lot of how we thought about conspiracies."
It took escaping eels 56 seconds on average to free themselves from death.
Handwriting suggests Prague doctor named Johannes Marcus Marci tried to decode in 1640.
"I can make a character quite different from how I interact with people in real life."
"Anything you can dream about here, you can make."
About 4 in 10 cats and nearly 8 in 10 dogs like to play fetch, especially males.
Skill of the hitters was still the biggest factor in how fast the ball came off the bat.
"This journey... it's a death wish."
The lecture featured Hopper discussing future challenges of protecting information.
Drawings of Atomics for the Millions "reveal early postwar anxieties about nuclear war."
Thompson's expedition discovered wreck of the SS Central America, aka the "Ship of Gold."
Work could lead to new "smart" materials that can learn and adapt to their environment.
Magnetars could zap clouds of atomic hydrogen, producing focused microwave beams.
Star Wars series was admittedly uneven, but it didn't deserve the online hate it received.
Old books with toxic dyes may be in universities, public libraries, private collections.
Analysis of ruthenium isotopes showed the impactor was a carbonaceous-type asteroid.
It's the latest installment in Sony's Spider-Man Universe, which has floundered recently.
The stone's chemical fingerprint closely matches old red sandstone from Orkney region.
"Once the deceiver obtains a being's trust, he gains the ability to sculpt their thoughts."