No matter how lovely your laundry room might be, doing laundry is still a chore—and a chore that can run up your energy bill. In our opinion, laundry seems like one of those activities that is best ...

Imagine a clock that doesn’t have electricity, but its hands and gears spin on their own for all eternity. In a new study, physicists at CU Boulder have used liquid crystals, the same materials that ...

In 1895, science fiction writer H.G. Wells introduced the world to the concept of time travel. Pick a time, he told his dinner guests in The Time Machine, and manipulate a lever in his machine: “this ...