In science fiction, the use of gunpowder-based weapons is generally portrayed as something from a savage past, with ...

Detecting and destroying drones is not about political will or procurement, but physics, law and institutional design ...

Archaeologists working in Alaska’s middle Tanana Valley have recovered stone and ivory tools from a sealed stratigraphic layer dating to roughly 14,000 years ago, making them among the oldest worked ...

Iran student protests resume as Tehran faces domestic unrest, U.S. military signaling intensifies, Russia targets Ukraine’s ...

The best tag team finisher of the Attitude Era and also what we are in right now, 3D can be pretty cool. Like dogs. They’re 3D. Pretty neat stuff there. The NES was also a very neat console, but not ...

We can tie knots in three dimensions because one-dimensional ropes “catch on each other”. This is why a long rope wound around itself, if done right, won’t come apart. We trust knots with our lives ...

When you toss a coin, you put it into a higher-energy state until it falls back down again. It can then end up in one of two ...

Conventional electronics process information leveraging the electrical charge of electrons. Over the past few decades, some ...

A subtle twist between atomically thin magnetic layers can generate unexpectedly large and complex spin structures.

After a century of study, physicists have theories — but they’re still not 100% sure.