A new study explains why basketball shoes make a high-pitched squeaking noise when they rub against the hardwood. The ridges on the sole hold the key ...

Looming behind Regenstein Library is a bronze, mushroom cloud–shaped sculpture—Henry Moore’s Nuclear Energy. Installed in 1967, it now seems like an inconspicuous part of the campus landscape. In ...

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Almost $1 billion in US government funding helped fuel a series of research projects involving defense labs in China in recent years, according to a new study that concludes security policies around ...

Some say we’ve entered a new age of AI-enabled scientific discovery. But human insight and creativity still can’t be ...

Scientists have unveiled a glass–plastic hybrid that bends instead of shattering, upending long‑held assumptions about how ...

Today, we know a lot about distance work and how to make it work. Thirty years of federally funded research brought ...

AMES, Iowa – A tiny, solid sample of a drug, complete with active and inactive ingredients, spun at 50,000 revolutions per ...

Investment by Beijing has transformed the country’s institutions despite lingering questions about research quality and ...

Rapid DNA tests, x-ray fluorescence guns, and other technologies are being deployed in the fight against wildlife trafficking ...

National Science Day Special – 28th FebruaryIn 1930, Sir C.V. Raman, one of India’s most eminent physicists was awarded the ...