CHICAGO (WGN) — It’s not every day that an all-time record is broken, but that was the case on Wednesday afternoon. The relative humidity in Chicago dipped to a desert-like 11% at 5 p.m., making it ...

Most solid materials we rely on, from steel, to plastics and ceramics, are designed to have specific properties. Whether a material is soft and flexible, or stiff and tough depends on how molecules ...

Drosophila mojavensis, and propose that sleep at one stage of an animal's life might anticipate needs at a future stage. The results fit well with this model, but are correlative in nature. The work ...

In the late 1800s, more than a hundred years before smartphones and weather apps, a physicist discovered you could step ...

Global carbon budgets attribute an incomplete role to cultivated plants due to the exclusion of annual crops, since they are not considered to result in net carbon accum ...

Glycidyl methacrylate (GMA) and maleic anhydride (MAH) are among the most extensively utilized reactive monomers for polymer blend modification. The matching degree between these monomers and polymer ...