In this video, I walk you through a super fun and simple balloon rocket experiment that you can set up in any classroom or at ...

You can be part of one of the coolest projects I’ve ever heard of: the Hyperbolic Crocheted Coral Reef. Roanoke College is a satellite for the worldwide effort that weaves science, mathematics and art ...

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Photothermal torsional actuation of a half-wax-filed Fermat carbon nanotube yarn. This video relates to a paper that appeared in the Nov. 16, 2012, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by ...

High-tech clothes that function as batteries and fuel cells, some of them even self-cleaning, may all be possible — thanks to a new type of yarn developed by nanotechnologists. The high-tech yarn is ...

A couple readers have emailed me asking what I think of the recent Nature article on blogs by scientists. I agree with Revere that it’s great that Nature (and specifically, Nature reporter Declan ...