Good educational reform listens to teachers. When the State Examinations Commission faced problems with staffing the proposed ...

Over a century of history, some fantasy movies were so important that they helped built the language of the genre.

Pamela’s Diner in Pittsburgh has been flipping what many consider the most extraordinary hotcakes in Pennsylvania, and ...

Explore North Carolina’s outdoor museum, where winding trails, sculptures, and nature combine to turn every walk into art.

Weak shock waves triggered by micro-cracks in the adhesive layer of tape cause it to screech when being unspooled from its ...

A new experiment has uncovered the mechanism responsible for the screeching sound made by peeling sticky tape. Using a ...

“This project started with a simple question: why do basketball shoes squeak?” Adel Djellouli, a study co-author and ...

Tiny, repeating detachments between sole and floor — thousands of times a second — create the distinctive squeak heard on the ...

Hypersonic flight could one day make long-haul travel as quick as a short movie. Researchers are testing how turbulence behaves at extreme speeds, a critical hurdle for designing these aircraft. Their ...

Loud booms and other noises heard around COSI on Wednesday afternoon will be part of preparations for the upcoming COSI Science Festival, including behind-the-s ...

For the first time, researchers have observed and measured weak electrical discharges, known as coronae, on trees during thunderstorms. A new study describes the near-invisible sparkles appearing ...