Recognized as the official state shell of Texas, the lightning whelk is a fascinating marine predator, Jace Tunnell writes.

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Beams of light that can be guided into corkscrew-like shapes called optical vortices are used today in a range of ...

If you’re making a lot of bread dough or stiff dough, you should look into a spiral mixer, which commercial bakers use. In this mixer, the bowl rotates around a fixed spinning blade. Having ...

At present, the white dwarfs spiral around each other with an orbital rate of more than 14 hours. After a few billion years, the stars will grow closer. Eventually they'll move faster, orbiting ...

Journalist with 30 years in news writing for CNN, KLAS-TV, WCMH-TV, Newsweek, Mediaite, and RawStory. Author of the award-nominated non-fiction book, "Stealing Sisi's Star," now a serial podcast ...

Paul J. Davies is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering banking and finance. Previously, he was a reporter for the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times. When fears of crisis loom, some ...

The shapes can seem to appear out of nowhere: an undulating S-like spiral streaking across the European skies or a glowing orb trailing above the North American coast. Such strange light shows ...

New evidence deepening the notoriety of microplastics as a pollutant and potential threat to human health has come with three separate studies showing how pervasive they have become. Scientists at ...