Beauty has a funny way of coming full circle. Trends from the ’70s, ’80s, ’90s, and early 2000s are popping up everywhere again, from runways to everyday makeup bags. Whether you lived through these ...

At a gold refinery, the team attempts an unusual experiment: melting a $1,000,000 gold bar using nothing but sunlight and a giant magnifying glass. The huge lens concentrates the sun’s rays into an ...

Gold and other heavy elements are born in some of the universe’s most violent events—but scientists still struggle to understand the nuclear steps that create them. Now, nuclear physicists have ...

Scientists at the University of Cambridge have developed a new way to alter complex drug molecules using light rather than ...

Not even an asteroid blast could kill it.

Analysis and reconstruction of a warp-weighted loom from the second millennium BC site of Cabezo Redondo, Spain, provides an ...

While surveying a historic home in the small town of Torzhok about 135 miles northwest of Moscow, archaeologists discovered a clay container filled with 409 gold coins buried beneath the structure’s ...

Long before nanotechnology existed, Richard Feynman explained how atoms could store huge amounts of information in microscopic spaces.

Physicists have recreated the Nobel Prize–winning quantum Hall effect using light, revealing that photons can follow the same ...