Air puff-less eye exams? A “smart” contact lens could someday help measure eye pressure and send wireless signals to enable ...

The U.S. National Chemistry Olympiad is a multi-tiered competition designed to stimulate and promote achievement in high school chemistry. It is sponsored by the American Chemical Society. Local ...

Swarms of magnetically controlled microrobots removed both microplastics and microbes from water. And the bots could be decontaminated and reused. This is a promising approach for decontaminating ...

Self-driving cars could soon become better night drivers thanks to a new, highly reflective black paint that’s easily ...

Scientists are harnessing cells to make new types of materials that can grow, repair themselves and even respond to their ...

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This venomous, 8-inch centipede may be the stuff of nightmares, but it could also save your life. Researchers report in the Journal of Natural Products that the many-legged critter — a staple of ...

The answer could be a few different reasons. Your breath has a lot of carbon dioxide. When you blow, the carbon dioxide pushes oxygen out of the way and the flame goes out. Your breath blows away some ...

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