Medicine & TechnologyAir-conditioned offices often take average male body temperatures as the reference point, PPE sizes are based on male body sizes and characteristics. The tech sector continues to be a male-dominated field producing innovation and design that can reinforce gender stereotypes, or ignore the needs of women completely.
Whenever there is a discussion about the best way to throw a football, people will often focus on the grip, the footwork, and even the arm motion before release. What you may not hear as much is the physics involved.
Soil bacteria may be a new source of energy soon. Scientists discover the specific functions of an electron-producing species like its nanowires, enabling the bacteria to send electrons over long distances.
Hydrogen fuel as a renewable source of energy is done by splitting water. A team from Virginia Tech developed a new technique to efficiently split water by chemically reassembling a catalyst.
Apple will be investing toward the construction of two 650-foot-tall onshore wind turbines near the town of Esbjerg, Denmark, the tech giant announced in a press release Thursday, September 3.
Solar energy has been around as early as the 7th century and evolved from lighting fires to powering entire buildings. One of the latest researches on solar energy identifies a molecule capable of efficiently storing energy from the Sun.
A 1961 nuclear bomb demonstration was released by Russia's nuclear agency Rosatom. The Tsar Bomba was the largest nuclear bomb ever created. The footage has been kept top secret since the Cold War.
NASA astronauts land a safe splashdown back on Earth after two months at the International Space Station. The historic day marks new beginnings for space exploration and will be a 'springboard' for future missions.
The assembly of a giant nuclear energy generation, a tokamak, will be the world's largest in 2025. The international project ITER unites thousands of scientists and engineers for the future of nuclear fusion energy.
Scientists from Singapore were able to create a 'shadow-effect energy generator' device that produces electricity using the contrast of illumination between lit and shadowed areas.