What makes spider silk so extraordinarily strong and elastic at the same time? This was the focus of recent investigations carried out by researchers from the University of Greifswald, the University ...

As per the official announcement, the online component of the Bootstrap Programme 2026 will be conducted from Vidyasagar Bhavan in April 2026. The registration process for interested students will ...

Explore how to build a DIY electric motor using simple, readily available materials in this detailed tutorial. Watch step-by-step as we construct the rotor, wind the stator coils, assemble the motor ...

Kenneth Evans receives funding from the National Science Foundation, the American Institute of Physics, and the Clinton Foundation. He is affiliated with Rice University's Baker Institute for Public ...

Startups flush with cash are building AI-assisted laboratories to find materials far faster and more cheaply, but are still waiting for their ChatGPT moment. The microwave-size instrument at Lila ...

In 1999, a decade after inventing the world wide web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, a British computer scientist, imagined an intelligent version of his creation. In that vision, much of daily life—finding ...

What is thought to be the world’s largest-known spider’s web, housing tens of thousands of arachnids, has been discovered in a cave on the Albanian-Greek border. After researchers published their ...

Computer scientist Yoshua Bengio has become the first person to have their work cited more than one million times on the search engine Google Scholar. Bengio, who is based at the University of ...

Tom has a Master's degree in Journalism. His editorial work covers anything from archaeology and the environment to technology and culture. Tom has a Master's degree in Journalism. His editorial work ...

A man in a winter hat and wearing blue plastic gloves holds a plastic sample cup and pointed tool near a shelf-like fungus growing on the side of a mossy tree in a forest. A researcher collecting ...

An Amazon Web Services outage has caused significant issues for a number of high-profile websites Monday morning, including Snapchat, Roblox, Fortnite, online broker Robinhood and the McDonald's app.