Long before the Sumerians pressed reeds into clay, humans may have already taken their first steps toward writing. Forty thousand years ago, in the depths of Ice Age caves, people began leaving behind ...

This is because even though the individual H₂O molecules have polarity, with the oxygen atom acting as a negative pole and the hydrogen atom as a positive, the molecules that make up the ice crystals ...

Researchers at Stony Brook University may have captured lightning in a bottle — or at least explained one of the theories of how it is created. Working with researchers in Spain and China, Stony Brook ...