When you step onto an icy sidewalk or push off on skis, the surface can seem to vanish beneath you. For more than a century, ...

The Big Island Invasive Species Committee is doing what it can to prevent an infestation from spreading from Kona to the ...

Major stock indexes fell Friday as technology shares remained under pressure on AI bubble fears. The tech-heavy Nasdaq sank, and the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average pulled back from records.

For centuries, the field of pathology has been defined by a single instrument: the microscope. But according to William ...

A microscope slide from Charles Darwin's HMS Beagle voyage has sold at auction for three times its estimate - after being found in a cardboard box. The slide, which Darwin used to examine volcanic ...

A microscope slide from Charles Darwin’s HMS Beagle voyage has sold at auction for three times its estimate – after being found in a cardboard box. The slide which Darwin used to examine volcanic rock ...

Ancient Nubians who lived between the 7th and 9th centuries tattooed the cheeks and foreheads of their infants and toddlers. This surprising discovery was made during a systematic survey of more than ...

Doha, Qatar – In the 1930s, a young Maqbool Fida Husain, barely in his 20s, arrived in the Indian financial capital of Mumbai, then known as Bombay, from Indore city 600km (370 miles) away. His dream ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Michael Boyle is an experienced financial professional with more than 10 years working with ...

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NEW YORK, Dec 11 : Major stock indexes mostly rose on Thursday, with the Dow and S&P 500 posting record closing highs, while the dollar and U.S. bond yields extended declines from the day before, when ...

Electron microscopy uses a beam of electrons to illuminate a sample and achieve much higher spatial resolution than light microscopy. Transmission electron microscopy generates an image of the ...