Underpinning much of modern technology, from smartphones to scanning tunneling microscopes to particle colliders, is Fermi's ...

As we adjust our print schedule, launch a new website and rely on the U.S. Postal Service for delivery, please know these changes were not made lightly. They were made with our readers in mind — and ...

Today:Early fog in the far southwest clears quickly. Most areas stay dry with sunshine and variable cloud, though northern and northeastern regions may see isolated showers. Light winds overall, ...

SINGAPORE – The quest to potentially tap the heat of the earth continues to sizzle, as Singapore will conduct a feasibility study on deploying geothermal energy systems here. This comes as the ...

SINGAPORE – The sea-level histories of less-studied tropical regions can now be traced as Nanyang Technological University (NTU) researchers have developed a way to unlock the “memories” of ancient ...

U.S. Navy Capt. Vince Libasci during USS Arlington change-of-command ceremony (U.S. Navy photo by Seaman Bret Whorton) Arlington’s namesake U.S. Navy ship has a new commanding officer. Navy Capt.

There are more than one million investors involved in SMSFs and it’s not just that they run their own money – ensuring they will never need to tap the wider public for an aged pension – they do it ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Thames Water has launched a probe into the impact of data centres on water supplies in and around London as a ...

How much energy can you store in a rubber band? Obviously, the answer depends on the size of the rubber band. I'm talking about, of course, the energy density or specific energy of an energy storage ...

Introduction Have you ever played with a Slinky, used a pinball machine, written with a click pen or ridden in a car? If so, then you have made use of a spring! Springs are in machines all around us ...

In my previous post on the Black Arrow from The Hobbit, I looked at the speed of some real arrows shot in my backyard. Oh, in case you didn't read that post, the arrow shot in the movie version of ...