Catalan scientists have built a pendulum-based energy-harvesting system that converts the vibrations of water currents into ...

The pendulum at the museum is attached to a 61-foot-long cable. It typically swings as the Earth rotates, knocking down pegs, until it suddenly stopped this month. The Houston Museum of Natural ...

That’s according to a TikTok trend, dubbed the “Japan effect.” First reported in Casey Lewis’s youth trends newsletter After School, the trend has users making slideshows of two images. For all ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Travers writes about the world of psychology. The science behind the Ben Franklin Effect reveals why giving and receiving ...

Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem discovered that the magnetic component of light plays a direct role in the Faraday effect, overturning a 180-year-old assumption that only its ...

While a larger parent storm system is typically required to produce heavy rain or snow events, lake effect snow is unique. All you need to produce some of the largest snow events on record is cold ...

Dominik Bošnjak is a freelance writer from Croatia. He has been writing about games for as long as he can remember and began doing so professionally circa 2010. If he was forced to pick a favorite ...

McLEAN, Virginia — “Thwarting Trump as much as possible. In a big, big way. So I’m normally Republican, but I’m voting Democrat.” Linda, a Catholic woman in her 70s, was clear that she didn’t support ...

Without a deal in Congress by Tuesday, the government will run out of funding. By Madeleine Ngo With the federal government headed toward a potential shutdown this week, thousands of workers could be ...

When two storms swirl around a shared center point, one can absorb another. By Judson Jones Reporter and meteorologist With one hurricane churning in the Atlantic and Tropical Storm Imelda nearby, ...