The Charleston area and its surroundings may receive more flash flood warnings soon, as the National Weather Service office ...

For thousands of years, humans have combined metals to collectively harness properties found in individual components, ...

A clever method from Caltech researchers now makes it possible to unravel complex electron-lattice interactions, potentially transforming how we understand and design quantum and electronic materials.

Despite the extensive use of EC motors, brushed motors haven’t been relegated to just ultra-low-end applications such as ...

Fatigue failure is one of the most common causes of mechanical breakdowns and accounts for the majority of engineering ...

If you pull twice as hard on a spring, it stretches twice as far. However, when we introduce very large forces or complicated interactions, that linear rule breaks down into a "nonlinear" regime.

Last month, a workshop on the Science of History met to explore a series of provocative questions: How do laws and regularities in a domain like physics differ from those in human history? How might ...

Researchers at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) have developed a new way to predict 2D materials that might ...

For chronic pain patients, though, the brain interprets even neutral sensations as pain and suffering. In effect, pain ...