Tiny copper structures with pores at both the nanometer and micron size scales could play a key role in the next generation of detonators used to improve the reliability, reduce the size and lower the cost of certain military munitions.

With powerful instruments scouring the heavens, astronomers have found more than 240 planets in the past two decades, none likely to support Earth-like life.

On the morning of Friday July 20, 1928, the crew of an RAF aircraft took photographs over the site of the Roman town of Venta Icenorum at Caistor St Edmund in Norfolk, a site which now lies in open fields to the south of Norwich.

California ground squirrels and rock squirrels chew up rattlesnake skin and smear it on their fur to mask their scent from predators, according to a new study by researchers at UC Davis.

Researchers have succeeded in manufacturing a stacked split-ring metamaterial for the optical wavelength range.

Clicking on Web links in holiday-related e-mail messages is a dangerous practice that could put your identity or your computer in the hands of criminals.

Sore head from too much festive spirit? Reaching for the aspirin? Take a moment to thank Edward Stone, the English vicar whose experiments with willow bark gave rise to modern aspirin and John Vane, who uncovered how the drug worked.

The melodious sound of a songbird may appear effortless, but his elocutions are actually the result of rigorous training undergone in youth and maintained throughout adulthood.

By genetically manipulating flies to express odorant receptors in one olfactory organ or both, researchers have shown that the brains of Drosophila melanogaster larvae not only make use of stereo cues to locate odors but also to navigate toward them

In the world of commercial materials, lighter and cheaper is usually better, especially when those attributes are coupled with superior strength and special properties.