If you’re into building large projects, you’ll eventually find yourself looking at wire rope. Multistrand steel wire used as antenna guy wires, bridge supports, and plenty of other ...

Maryland is suing the company that produces the waterproof material Gore-Tex, alleging its leaders kept using “forever chemicals” long after learning about serious health risks associated with ...

Dr. Lukas Bruder and an international team of scientists have successfully produced and controlled hybrid electron-photon quantum states in helium atoms using specially prepared laser pulses. This ...

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The Minnesota Department of Health has received more than 40 reports of norovirus outbreaks so far this December, almost twice the usual number. The department defines an outbreak as an incident ...

Critics are lambasting the so-called "Daniel Penny effect" after several bystanders and even police officers appeared to stand by without helping as an innocent woman burned to death on a subway ...

Earth faces a one-in-six chance of experiencing a massive volcanic eruption this century, scientists warn, and 'humanity has no plan to address it.' Such an event, according to climate professor ...

Sample of a concrete wall constructed using the newly developed 3D concrete printing method. Credit: NTU Singapore Scientists have developed a new 3D concrete printing method that captures carbon, ...

The TSA expects to screen 40 million passengers over the holidays and through Jan. 2. Photo Credit: Potowizard/Shutterstock The head of the TSA warned that if legislators do not pass a budget by ...

The team concludes that synthetic biology research should avoid creating mirror bacteria until we better understand the risks. However, restrictions on this work should also be carefully evaluated ...

Experts on cybersecurity and online foreign influence campaigns are urging social media company Bluesky, whose app has exploded in popularity in recent weeks, to step up moderation to counter ...