Climate change is bringing extreme summer heat to many more countries, but using the right plants in your garden could help keep your home a bit cooler next summer.
The atoms of the 5th element of the periodic table often find themselves in the company of each other, forming allotropes with a rich variety of structural motifs, each carrying a unique set of chemical and physical properties. Despite the long catalog, most boron allotropes do not simultaneousl...
An electron's charge is normally fixed, like a coin you can't break into pieces. But if electrons are cooled close to absolute zero and trapped in a two-dimensional layer under a powerful magnetic field, they organize into a collective state of "quasiparticles" that seem to hold only a fraction ...
Any dog—even your own—can learn this valuable canine skill. The post Inside the school where dogs learn to sniff out bed bugs and other pests appeared first on Popular Science .
The area covered by the Antarctic ozone hole peaked at more than 27 million square kilometers (10. 4 million square miles) in September, the second-largest area ever observed for this time of year.
The veteran space explorer in spring 2026 piloted the Artemis II mission around the moon, and has now stepped back from active space exploration as he joins Cal Poly.