Modern jet engines operate in gas temperatures exceeding the melting point of their own components, surviving only through extreme materials science, hollow single-crystal blades, internal air cooling ...

Water is a transparent, odourless, tasteless chemical compound made of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom. Water is essential for all life forms. It is a universal solvent and regulates ...

Rocket Lab's latest deal, worth a potential $805 million, is larger than the company's trailing 12-month revenue. Similarly, it nearly equals the company's existing backlog of $1.1 billion. Most ...

Stearic acid, formally octadecanoic acid, is a fatty acid that is present as a component of triglyceride esters in many natural sources. It occurs most widely in animal fats and products made from ...

Scientists used a cylindrical chunk of ice to study iceberg melting and capsizing. Ice melts faster underwater than above, changing the shape of the cylinder to something more pentagonal and shifting ...

(CAMBRIDGE, Md) – The Horn Point Lab at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science is preparing to welcome the community this weekend. The campus is holding their annual fall open ...

The University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science’s Horn Point Laboratory invites the public to its annual, free Open House on Saturday, October 11, 2025, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. This 2025 ...

Cockerell set out to write a family memoir and ended up crafting an absorbing history of a little-known episode in the birth of Zionism that saw 10,000 Jews leave Russia for, of all places, Galveston, ...

He works in mysterious ways.

Researchers were shocked to discover that a weather station at the top of the Greenland ice sheet had registered temperatures approaching the melting point in mid-July, according to MKweather.com. On ...