(Inside Science) -- "Watching paint dry" may be a term most people use to show how boring something can be, but the physics of what happens when anything changes from wet to dry is enough to grab ...

(Inside Science) -- Prolonged starvation and inactivity typically cause the bodies of mammals to lose muscle. Now scientists have discovered that the thirteen-lined ground squirrel (Ictidomys ...

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(Inside Science) -- Static electricity leapt from powering party tricks to batteries a mere decade ago, when scientists learned to repurpose the process behind doorknob shocks for deployable ...

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(Inside Science) -- Ever heard of a snap fit? It's kind of a fancy way to describe two pieces of (usually) plastic that fit or snap together. If you take look around your house, you'll probably see ...

(Inside Science) -- Predictive eye movement research shows that the brains of hockey fans may share a similarity with retired star Wayne Gretzky's. Just as the Great One didn't skate to the hockey ...

(Inside Science) -- Lanternfish are known for the bioluminescent organs known as a photophores that guide them through the deep sea. In some species of this group of fish, the organs shine like ...

(Inside Science) -- The quest to track health information without drawing blood has inspired wearables like Fitbit and Apple Watch, but it's also pushing engineers to develop thin sensors that adhere ...

(Inside Science) -- Megan Povey has spent half a century building a reputation as a food physicist. She has shown how sound waves can be used as a tool to study food properties, to test food quality ...

(Inside Science) -- Even though he works with spiders regularly, Yao Zhang, a physicist at Jinan University in China, admits he's afraid of them. In fact, most of the people in his lab are, except for ...