In a world chock-full of high-tech health monitoring gadgets and apps, you might be surprised to learn that an item stocked at the local dollar store — a tape measure — could be more accurate than a ...

A hundred years ago, Maryland's first state forester challenged residents to find the state's biggest tree. Now the contest is back. Scott Detrow speaks with Joli McCathran of the Big Tree Program.

Wide bandgap semiconductor materials are highly useful in power electronics due to their ability to work at high temperatures, power, and frequency. Gallium nitride (GaN) is a wide bandgap ...

The smartwatch's Blood Oxygen app lets you measure the oxygen level of your blood on-demand. It's been MIA for more than a year thanks to a patent spat, but it's back in action now. Apple has your ...

The de Blasio administration has begun inspecting the ventilation of every school in the city to make sure children do not return to classrooms where the coronavirus can easily spread. On Wednesday, ...

President Donald Trump is redoubling his efforts to end the war in Ukraine, announcing a second meeting with Russia’s Vladimir Putin. Ukraine expects to have a $3.5 billion fund by next month to buy ...

Physicists have measured both the momentum and position of a particle without breaking Heisenberg’s iconic uncertainty principle. In quantum mechanics, particles don’t have fixed properties the way ...

New scans of a tiny Cretaceous jaw and claw show the tyrant dinosaurs started out the size of a small dog. An illustration shows what Tyrannosaurus rex hatchlings may have looked like. The newly ...

It’s never too early to start thinking about next year’s iPhones. And the expected standout of the fall 2026 lineup will be Apple’s first ever foldable model. The ‘iPhone Fold,’ for lack of an ...

Feeding blueberry powder to infants during the transition to solid foods showed promising effects on gut microbiota diversity, highlighting a potential new strategy for supporting lifelong health.