Albert Einstein wrote, "Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom." ...

There's a particular kind of wreck that makes crumple zones, airbags, and five-star ratings almost irrelevant, and a fleeing driver in Smith County, Tennessee found it early Friday morning. According ...

Thomas Mulligan delves into the fascinating ways biological systems uphold complex organization while remaining perfectly ...

The mechanical process of cell division exerts powerful, if microscopic, forces. How do the molecular machines that power it ...

The Press Herald talked to 8 educators who spend their summers leading history tours, waiting tables, working Sea Dogs games ...

A study published in Nature Physics provides new molecular-level evidence from simulations that liquid water is not a single uniform substance, but a constantly shifting mixture of two distinct ...

People use their bodies—not just their brains—to think. So the MIT Project on Embodied Education brings movement to the ...

Fourteen years ago this week, the most anticipated IPO in a generation opened with a 30-minute delay and a crisis that took months to sort out. On May 18, 2012, Facebook sold 421 million shares at $38 ...

The universe has a hidden structure, and a University of Virginia professor is mapping it in 3D, using 46 million galaxies and quasars and 19 million stars. Satya Gontcho A Gontcho, an assistant ...

Can light behave like a whirlwind? It turns out it can—and such "optical tornadoes" have now been created in an extremely small structure by scientists from the Faculty of Physics at the University of ...

Dr. William M. Bugg, former head of the University of Tennessee at Knoxville's physics department, recently passed away at age 95. Under his leadership, the department gained national stature and ...