CHICAGO (WGN) — It’s not every day that an all-time record is broken, but that was the case on Wednesday afternoon. The relative humidity in Chicago dipped to a desert-like 11% at 5 p.m., making it ...

Most solid materials we rely on, from steel, to plastics and ceramics, are designed to have specific properties. Whether a material is soft and flexible, or stiff and tough depends on how molecules ...

Drosophila mojavensis, and propose that sleep at one stage of an animal's life might anticipate needs at a future stage. The results fit well with this model, but are correlative in nature. The work ...

Please don’t become a Sensitive Steve or Sensitive Sally over the title! I’ve been to all 50 U.S. states. Every. Single. One. So before you get in a full tizzy, don’t waste the energy. The truth is ...

Because greenhouse gases in the atmosphere could influence Earth’s climate, attention has been focused for several decades on exchanges involving CO 2. The global warming that has been occurring for ...