Researchers have long debated how the Indigenous people of Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui, moved their huge human-faced moai statues — which can weigh dozens of tons, on average — centuries ago ...

How does a mere soda bottle become a dramatic science demo? The “Coke Bottle Experiment” (often with Mentos) triggers a spectacular eruption by rapidly releasing dissolved carbon dioxide. This classic ...

When you push or pull with a simple machine, you are applying a force and doing work. And, if you get more force out of a machine than you put into it, then that machine has a mechanical advantage.

A construction site in Germany is making history — and not because of what's being built but because of how it's being torn down. Volvo Construction Equipment and Volvo Trucks have launched the ...

Dashun Wang is the Kellogg Chair of Technology and the founding director of the Northwestern Innovation Institute at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. When Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel ...

Johnson commands a big payday to star in films — and that usually makes sense given much of his box office track record. But this wasn’t a standard vehicle for the Rock, so he should have been willing ...