Winter brings cozy nights, hot cocoa, and the beauty of a snow-covered landscape. But it can also bring power outages, icy ...

Two mathematicians have proved that a straightforward question—how hard is it to untie a knot?—has a complicated answer.

Netflix’s Death by Lightning reveals how Alexander Graham Bell built a device that could have saved President Garfield—until ...

Man found a Viking hoard using a metal detector with hacksilver, scrap silver used as bullion for weight trade, alongside cut coin fragments.

Digital work instructions provide shop floor employees with a visual guide to accompany written directions. Digital ...

Every day, millions of people pass through walk-through metal detectors at airports, schools, concert venues, courthouses, ...

School districts in the DMV and nationwide are increasingly taking steps to keep students safe and the school security ...

A small piece of metal engineered in Australia helped sharpen the James Webb telescope's vision from a million miles away.

Discovering little bits of history that have been left behind is what keeps Brandon Sutton swinging his metal detector ...

A footsoldier in the recent Glasgow and Edinburgh gang wars is facing “substantial” jail time for using a metal detector to find a hidden Glock pistol. Liam McDermid, 25, used the device to try to ...

Researchers have developed an experimental method for determining whether the functions performed by a quantum computer are the result of quantum mechanics — or just a clever twist on classical ...