Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) has awarded four years of funding ($4.8 million) to The Grainger College of Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana‑Champaign. The award supports a ...

Jack White Passes Along Meg White's Regards as White Stripes Are Inducted Into Rock Hall, Shares Touching Parable About Duo's ...

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Turbulent flow looks like chaos — swirling, unpredictable, and out of control — yet it hides some of the most intricate patterns in nature. From storm clouds to jet engines, it governs how energy ...

A Hall-effect sensor is a transducer that converts a magnetic field directly into a usable electrical voltage. It enables ...

Humans can detect buried objects without touching them, sensing faint pressure ripples in sand. This seventh sense is called ...

Increasing the surface area when plasma and water interact could help scale up a technology that destroys contaminants such ...

The math behind even the simplest ocean waves is notoriously uncooperative. A team of Italian mathematicians has made major ...

NASA’s Cassini mission has revealed surprising heat flow at Enceladus’ north pole, showing the moon releases energy from both ...