Data from the National Fire Protection Association estimates that fire departments respond to an average of over 350,000 home structure fires a year, which accounts for a yearly average of $7.2 ...

Basketball players come in all sizes, and so do the courts they play on. Have you ever wondered how much of a difference there was between the dimensions of your old junior high school court and the ...

For over 20 years, I have been studying curiosity. I didn't plan to be a curiosity researcher. I entered graduate school in 1998 to study how panic attacks emerge. Upon interviewing people suffering ...

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Could the universe have hidden dimensions we’ve yet to detect? The idea of extra dimensions has intrigued physicists for over ...

Good sleep can make a big difference in your life. It can improve your mental health, give you a stronger immune system and lower your risk for diabetes and heart disease, all while deep sleep ...

One-third of American adults do not receive enough sleep each night, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Sleep deprivation can have a severe impact on your health, so it is ...

The holy grail of display technology is to replicate what you see in the real world. This means video playback in 3D — but when it comes to displays, what is 3D anyway? You don’t need me to tell you ...

Nanoscale technology is a suite of techniques used to manipulate matter at the scale of atoms and molecules. “Nano” is a measurement - not an object. Unlike “biotechnology,” where you know that bios ...