“This project started with a simple question: Why do basketball shoes squeak?” Harvard University applied physicist Adel ...

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Express-News critic Mike Sutter watches a superstar chef reinvent himself all over again, from the city's best chicken-fried ...

Professors speak on how generative AI is changing hiring and education, and recommend how best to prepare to enter a volatile market that is defined by unknowns.

Cambridge University Professor Josephine Quinn on why the 'West' was a hard-won idea, and why the idea of great civilizations of the world is so attractive and so harmful to the practice of history ...

The Moon is far smaller than Earth, yet some of its mountains rise to astonishing heights. Lower gravity and a lack of active plate tectonics allow lunar peaks to grow in ways that aren’t possible on ...

Precious metals may be escaping from the planet’s core. This hotly debated subject could help us understand Earth’s evolution and determine whether life exists elsewhere in the Universe ...

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Iceland's stunning snow snakes appear when wind blows loose snow into twisting shapes across dark beaches. Here's how to catch this rare natural spectacle on your winter trip.