Why do avalanches start to slide? And what happens inside the "pile of snow?" If you ask yourself these questions, you are ...

When do amorphous solids lose their stability? Physicists at the University of Konstanz provide a model – with a box full of building blocks.

John Kounios is a professor of psychological and brain sciences at Drexel University. He is co-author of The Eureka Factor: Aha Moments, Creative Insight, and the Brain (Random House, 2015) and ...

That’s more like it. So why is it than we can hear the alien scream now? Well, sounds are made from vibrations. We can't see vibrations, but if we did they would look a little like this.

The film focuses on a series of hunger strikes organized by those incarcerated at California’s Pelican Bay State Prison, in protest of conditions in highest-security prisons. By Alissa Wilkinson ...