A vortex tube splits a stream of air into hot and cold! This is how it works and why it doesn't violate the second law of thermodynamics.

For four decades, a controversial idea has shaped how autism is understood by researchers, healthcare professionals and the ...

For four decades, a controversial idea has shaped how autism is understood by researchers, healthcare professionals and the public: the claim that autistic people are “mind ...

If the headlines are to be believed, kids these days are getting dumber. Some of the data – which indicate that Gen Z individuals are performing worse than their parent ...

After weeks of protecting her brood, a spider mother makes the ultimate sacrifice, offering her own body as food.

PFAS or ‘forever chemicals’ have wide-ranging toxic effects. Now, researchers have found that two non-legacy PFAS, namely perfluorononanoic acid (PFNA) and perfluorooctanesulfonamide (PFOS ...

For scientists who study the Southern Ocean, a long-standing silver lining in the gloomy forecast of climate change has been ...

Scientists think Venus once had oceans, water, and a climate that may have resembled early Earth. But something pushed the ...

The National Institutes of Health recently announced plans to convert one of its long-standing primate research centers into an animal sanctuary. The decision builds on broader bipartisan mo ...

The National Institutes of Health recently announced plans to convert one of its long-standing primate research centers into an animal sanctuary. The decision builds on ...

(via New Scientist) Deep beneath the planet's surface at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in South Dakota, scientists are waiting for something that may never happen – the interaction of ...