Scientists discover that orb-weaving spiders listen with their legs, detecting sound vibrations that travel through their silken webs.
Silicone is a generic term for a whole slew of humanmade polymers with many different forms and applications.
Data show a major class of long-used “eco-friendly” copper chemicals unexpectedly react with soil, making gases harmful to Earth’s protective ozone layer.
These two strange ingredients could make skin-care products that are better for both our skin and the environment.
Metals can bend and pull without snapping, and conduct electricity. The reason: Their atoms tend to lose electrons to neighboring atoms.
The chemical element silicon is used to make everything from bricks to cookware to electronics.
Electrons are negatively charged particles. They are attracted to the positively charged particles in the center, or nucleus, of an atom.
Look closely at Triantha occidentalis, and you’ll see gluey hairs — and a trail of insect corpses on its stem.
In physics, plasma refers to one of the four states of matter. In medicine, plasma describes the part of blood that ferries cells, nutrients and more throughout the body.