What is the world's most dangerous chemical?
There are plenty of harmful chemicals, but the devil is in the details when determining which is the most dangerous.
Health
Save $400 on our favorite foldable rowing machine with this Black Friday in July Sale deal
Deals Save a whopping 40% on the Echelon Smart Rower at Echelon.
Animals
Searching for 'Makozilla' — the supersized mako sharks in the North Pacific
A decade after a huge mako shark dubbed "The Beast" was caught off the California coast, experts search for its enormous relatives.
Human Behavior
30,000 years of history reveals that hard times boost human societies' resilience
Human societies that experience downturns do a better job of recovering from later disasters, new research finds.
'We're meeting people where they are': Graphic novels can help boost diversity in STEM, says MIT's Ritu Raman
In a new series of comics, where young, female scientists take center stage, MIT's Ritu Raman explains how the format can inspire the next generation of young people into the world of STEM.
Physics & Mathematics
'The beauty of symbolic equations is that it's much easier to … see a problem at a glance': How we moved from words and pictures to thinking symbolically
"Even the +, −, =, and × signs we take for granted only came into widespread use in the 17th century. Which means that the earlier algebraists we know of … all had expressed their equations mostly in words or pictorial word images"
'Immortal' stars at the Milky Way's center may have found an endless energy source, study suggests
Strange stars clustered near the Milky Way's center are much younger than theory predicts is possible. New research suggests their youth could actually be eternal — and fueled by annihilating dark matter.
Chemistry
Why does cotton shrink?
The science of ruining your favorite shirt is more complicated than you might think.
Tech
Computer inspired by Japanese art of paper-cutting has no electronics and stores data in tiny cubes
The new mechanical computer uses 64 physical cubes to represent binary bits and is inspired by kirigami — the Japanese art of paper-folding and cutting.
