Hani Almadhoun describes his heartache after discovering six members of his family in Gaza – including his brother – were killed by an Israeli airstrike.

My brother Majed. His wife Safaa. Their children Riman, 18, Siwar, 13, Ali, 7… And nine-year-old Omar, whose dream was to be a soccer player. All six of them, my family members. Gone. At 5.00 a ...

Encasing insecticides in microscopic plastic capsules - a common formulation for many pest sprays on the market - could lead to unintended consequences, according to a new study from Oregon State ...

Scientists have demonstrated how encasing algae in tiny liquid crystal droplets can boost its natural energy harvesting abilities by up to three times, marking another step toward commercial ...

When a 9.0 magnitude earthquake hit Japan in March 2011, I was on the 9th floor of a 20-storey Tokyo hotel. The quake was one of the five most powerful since modern record keeping began in 1900 ...

(Nanowerk News) A more effective method for closing gaps in atomically small wires has been developed by University of Illinois researchers, further opening the doors to a new transistor technology.

This article was originally published with the title “Encasing Steam Boilers” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 3 No. 24new (December 1860), p. 379 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican12081860-379a ...