The knots in your shoelaces are familiar, but can you imagine knots made from light, water, or from the structured fluids that make LCD screens shine? They exist, and in a new Nature Physics study, ...

Apple users can now opt for a "Liquid Glass" makeover, at least on specific devices. Unveiled at the 2025 Worldwide Developers Conference, the "beautiful new" software design intended to "make apps ...

Lenses made with liquid crystals could lead to eyeglasses that can easily switch between correcting near- and far-sightedness. Instead of fashioning lenses just from glass, which must be made convex ...

A liquid marble is an otherworldly combination of liquid and solid. Shaped like a solid marble but with many properties of a liquid, these strange objects were introduced in a 2001 Nature article and ...

Liquid Death, the brand known for marketing canned water like it's a heavy metal band, is expanding into the energy drink space, the company confirmed to USA TODAY on July 17. The company said in an ...

The Library Company reading room on Juniper Street in Philadelphia c. 1935, one of the group’s main locations from 1880 to 1935. The Library Company of Philadelphia Founding father Benjamin Franklin ...

While the Bus Pirate 5 is an impressive piece of hardware, the software is arguably where the project really shines. Creator [Ian Lesnet] and several members of the community are constantly working to ...

1901 S. Bell Street, where a library branch was meant to be located (via Google Maps) Arlington leaders say they haven’t forgotten they owe the Crystal City area a library. “It’s on our to-do list,” ...

On New Year’s Day about 15 years ago, we spent hours looking for our cat. The fireworks had frightened the poor animal so much that it had hidden somewhere. We searched all its favorite places without ...

Whole genome sequencing (WGS) is a comprehensive method that enables scientists to assess the genetic blueprint of diverse species and observe critical inter and intraspecies variations. WGS data ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Color plays a crucial role in our daily lives, from the clothes we wear to the screens we gaze at. Yet, traditional methods of creating color, which rely on chemical pigments and ...