Scientists have developed water-repelling metal structures that will prevent ships from sinking even after damage.

Do you know which planet could float in a giant bathtub? Discover the science behind its low density, its hundreds of moons, and its famous rings.

Whether it's the cubes in your cocktail or a raft for Arctic seals, floating ice is a basic fact of nature we may take for granted. Floating ice is "such a fundamental fact of the world, it's hard to ...

Ice floating on water seems to be a common occurrence; however, one of the most astonishing and crucial phenomena in nature is the fact that it happens. In general, all matter behaves in such a way ...

In a corner of the Rijksmuseum hangs a seventeenth-century cityscape by the Dutch Golden Age painter Gerrit Berckheyde, “View of the Golden Bend in the Herengracht,” which depicts the construction of ...