Tricky goes “indie” with new collaborators for his best album in eons; Yard Act pivot on their third album; Helado Negro & ...

A body was located on a sandbar in the Wisconsin River Monday less than two miles downriver from where a swimmer was reported ...

Why does water roll off a duck's back but spread on clean glass? For macroscopic (millimeter-scale) drops, this behavior can be explained using continuum theory. However, when nanoscale (10 –9 mm) ...

I recently looked seriously at replacing my 2014 natural gas water heater with a heat pump water heater. At first, the decision looked easy. Silicon Valley Clean Energy was offering a large rebate, ...

In the United States, "football" is typically associated with a sport that is, for the most part, played with one's hands. However, most of the world uses the term "football" to describe the sport the ...

Are there quarters in soccer? Nope, but you aren't just seeing things. A summer World Cup in the United States, Mexico and Canada brings with it many challenges, and first and foremost has to be ...

The newest Patriot surface-to-air missiles can be fired in seconds, but take more than two years to build and cost around $4 million each. Despite that math, the U.S. and its allies can’t get enough ...

Heat pump water heaters are already significantly more efficient than conventional electric tanks, but they are still mostly used in a reactive way—heating water only when temperatures drop. This ...

Bay Area air regulators have touted sweeping new rules that ban the installation of natural gas-powered water heaters and furnaces as a way to reduce smog and greenhouse gas emissions. But with polls ...

Inside the enduring appeal of machines that look, move, and increasingly think like humans. Twenty-first-century humanoids, like this one built in a German lab, have evolved from demonstrating ...

Spring is often a rainy season. If you get caught in a downpour without an umbrella, you will quickly learn what it means to be wet. But what is it about water that makes it wet? I am an atmospheric ...