A robot being developed at Duke University is almost ready to face the world, in any direction. Instead of trying to copy ...

Oil prices will continue to fluctuate wildly until it’s clear whether Iran and President Donald Trump will strike an agreement to end the war, according to Citigroup Inc.’s global head of commodities ...

Japanese astronomers have discovered a thin atmosphere around a small celestial body beyond Neptune. This trans-Neptunian object is much smaller than what was previously thought possible to sustain an ...

Abortion isn’t merely a big issue for Democrats. Abortion is the central organizing principle of today’s Democratic Party. Legalizing, subsidizing, and spreading abortion is a cause inextricable from ...

Astronomers have detected a thin atmosphere around a tiny celestial body in the outer solar system for the first time — an object previously thought to be too small to support the presence of an ...

Light travels in straight lines. If an object is transparent, it means you can see through the object clearly as light passes through it. There are objects that let some light through, but not enough ...

As humanity heads back to the moon, scientists are trying to understand the impact that being in space can have on the brain. Research has shown that spaceflight can temporarily change the brain’s ...

On Earth, people grip objects to ensure they don't fall. In space, this process changes: When astronauts hold an object without moving it and then let go, the object doesn't fall because there is no ...

Have you ever seen a flag being raised, or wondered how a mechanical clock works? Let’s take a look at some of the simple mechanisms that they use. Pulleys and gears. When a flag is raised, it will ...

Al and Melanie Nicora are coming around to the idea of their beloved baseball team leaving Northern California to settle down in the Southern Nevada desert. Slowly. Painfully. Grudgingly. Standing in ...

The president of South Korea this week opposed the removal of U.S. air defense systems from his country to the Middle East but said doing so will not significantly affect Seoul’s ability to deter ...