Your balled-up receipt contains multitudes. Mathematicians at Harvard University paper crumples in some surprisingly predictable patterns. When…
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Why Heron’s Aeolipile Is One of History’s Greatest Forgotten Machines
Nearly 1,800 years before the start of the Industrial Revolution, an ancient engineer by the name…
Carbon-carbon covalent bonds far more flexible than presumed
A Hokkaido University research group has successfully demonstrated that carbon-carbon (C-C) covalent bonds expand and contract…
Explainer: Rainbows, fogbows and their eerie cousins
With a little water and a glimmer of light, crazy sky displays can emerge, day or…