In graduate school, my experimental archaeology professor told a student to create a door socket – the hole in a door frame ...

The Russian Sleep Experiment is a viral creepypasta describing a supposed Soviet test where prisoners were kept awake using experimental gas. As days passed, the subjects allegedly descended into ...

Physics is filled with mysteries – and, believe it or not, gravity remains one of them. We rely on gravity to explain things large and small. But at a fundamental level, we still don’t fully ...

Working in strict secrecy, a government scientist in Norway built a machine capable of emitting powerful pulses of microwave energy and, in an effort to prove such devices are harmless to humans, in ...

In graduate school, my experimental archaeology professor told a student to create a door socket - the hole in a door frame ...

In a recent study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science, Wanyue Zhao and her colleagues used volatile organic compounds (VOCs) to analyze the composition of scents given off by mummies ...

Gabriel Gomes believes the future of chemistry is as much about flasks and fume hoods as it is about code. A chemical engineer at Carnegie Mellon University, Gomes works at the intersection of ...

The art of mummification has long been shrouded in mystery, but new research shows the musty smell of mummified remains helps unlock important information about the ancient practice. The study, led by ...