The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Since their discovery in 1982, exotic materials known as quasicrystals have bedeviled physicists and chemists. Their atoms arrange ...

At the heart of the Swiss-French border, beneath 100 meters of Alpine soil, a long-abandoned alchemical dream has stirred back to life—if only briefly. Researchers at CERN, the European Organisation ...

You may be able to convert your traditional 401(k) into a Roth 401(k) if your employer offers both types of plans. It boils down to when you want to pay taxes on your retirement savings: while you are ...

There are a lot of underutilized technologies in common PC apps that are really useful once you discover them. One on my list is Object Character Recognition (OCR ...

Bacterial styrene oxidase isomerase has been known to science for more than three decades, but its mechanism of action has not yet been elucidated. "Working with this enzyme is difficult because it is ...

Palomar Motel in Chula Vista, which is being converted to low-income housing. (Photo courtesy of Google Street View) Chula Vista has been awarded $8.61 million in Homekey+ funding from the California ...

Last year saw twice as much Manhattan office space start to be converted into apartments as the year before – a boom that’s poised to change the chemistry of Midtown neighborhoods historically ...

WASHINGTON COUNTY, Ga. — The Washington County Sheriff's Office arrested three people for attempting to trade contraband with Washington State Prison inmates, according to a release from Sheriff Joel ...

A new phishing and malware distribution toolkit called MatrixPDF allows attackers to convert ordinary PDF files into interactive lures that bypass email security and redirect victims to credential ...

How effective are B2B webinar registrations, content hubs, and landing pages in driving action? What share of attendees join on-demand versus live, on average? How does marketing and experience ...