Why Is Mercury Liquid?
Mercury, a transition metal belonging to Group 12 of the periodic table, remains a liquid at room temperature…
Mathematical Historian Unearths Early Decimal System by Venetian Merchant
At a Glance A recent discovery by a mathematical historian at Trinity Western University in Canada has shed…
Glass Is Brittle—But It Doesn’t Have to Be
Glass is a unique amorphous solid with disorganized molecules that make it transparent but also brittle, leading to…
What’s Above This Plate On the Ground?
The amount of air above a 1 square meter area at sea level is equivalent to 10,300 liters…
We Found a Pile of Mammoth Bones. What Were They For?
Enormous piles of wooly mammoth bones dating back to the end of the last ice age have been…
Finding the Most Distant Black Hole Ever Detected
UHZ1 is the most distant black hole ever detected, located at the literal edge of the observable universe,…
New Tools Enable Precise Control of Cellular Organization and Signaling
At a Glance Researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have developed innovative tools to address the challenge of…
Lightspeed Baseball, And All the Trouble That Comes With It
At such an extreme speed, the baseball’s impact on the surrounding air and objects would cause atomic nuclei…
The Blue LED Changed the World—But Making It Took Decades of Research.
The successful creation of blue LEDs led to a significant transformation in the lighting industry, enabling the development…
Recreating Purple Gold (for Curiosity’s Sake)
The creator faced several challenges in the process of making purple gold, including the fragility of the alloy,…