In the 1920s, Albert Einstein and one of his former students developed a way to keep food cold using heat. It was designed to ...

Scientific research was suppressed for decades in Maoist China, Stalin's Russia, and Nazi Germany. This seriously held back ...

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In “The Devil Reached Toward the Sky,” Garrett Graff crafts an oral history of the Manhattan Project and its deadly consequences.

No energy technology has been more revolutionary than nuclear power.

On August 6, 1945, the sky above the Japanese city of Hiroshima opened. A blinding flash, then a deafening sonic boom. An entire city pulverized in seconds. Thus began the nuclear age. Today, 80 years ...

A virus from humble black-eyed peas is showing extraordinary promise in the fight against cancer. Unlike other plant viruses, the cowpea mosaic virus (CPMV) can awaken the human immune system and ...

A virus that typically infects black-eyed peas is showing great promise as a low-cost, potent cancer immunotherapy—and researchers are uncovering why. In a study published in Cell Biomaterials, a team ...

Side-by-side illustration of the cowpea mosaic virus (CPMV, left), which has potent cancer-fighting effects, and the closely related cowpea cholorotic virus (CCMV, right), which does not exhibit ...

This summer, make waves in swim-forward looks from glittering one-pieces to barely-there bikinis designed to turn heads. Matonhodze wears a Miu Miu jacket, swimsuits, and belts; Jimmy Choo sandals.

SEATTLE — What were supposed to be free lunches ended up costing families at several schools throughout Seattle due to a breakdown in communication over a new program. Families said they were never ...

Exactly 200 years ago, a French engineer introduced an idea that would quantify the universe’s inexorable slide into decay. But entropy, as it’s currently understood, is less a fact about the world ...