America explored space with rockets—but Project HARP tried a different approach: using a massive gun. This High Altitude ...

The Ship of Theseus thought experiment is a long-standing problem in philosophy that has been debated for centuries.

As part of The World's ongoing series The Big Fix, Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Susanna Lidström, a researcher at the KTH ...

Here's the nerdy but cool part: our eyes use three types of cone cells to see colour: S-cones for blue, M-cones for green, ...

Arnold Mathijssen, a physicist at the University of Pennsylvania, is partial to pour-over coffee, which involves manually pouring hot water over ground beans and filtering it into a pot or mug below.

British artist Stuart Semple has created a paint of the 'profoundly saturated' shade - and he's selling it for an outrageous ...

The invention is a metamaterial, which is a material engineered to feature new and unusual properties that depend on the material's physical structure rather than its chemical composition. In this ...

Jaideep Ahlawat is casual about breaking the internet. Mostly known for portraying intense characters, he recently went viral for his unexpectedly suave dance moves in a song from his upcoming ...

Are your little ones curious about musical instruments? Bring them to the program room at the Edgartown Library to experiment ...

It’s one of the biggest streamed metal songs of all time, but what role did the hand of fate play in its origin?

Scientists have created a new platform called 'Oz' that uses laser light to control up to 1,000 photoreceptors in the eye at once. Using Oz, the researchers showed people images, videos and a new, ...

The presence of disorder causes worms to speed up, not slow down – a surprising result with applications in robotics ...