About this series"From Sun to Cells" is a science story for middle and high school students that traces the "invisible flows" behind visible phenomena, rather than just memorizing science terms in ...

Extant and ancient cephalopods—including octopuses, squids, extinct ammonites, cuttlefish and nautiluses—have all had to solve the problem of buoyancy, whether they have hard external shells or not.

Ah, the stately hot air balloon. Not really useful for all that much except for having a grand old time floating around the skies, it's still a marvel of simple physics. Fill a giant balloon with air.

Editor's Note: Julian Hunt, the lead researcher on this study, has contacted us to say the figures quoted in the original press release, as well as the research paper and subsequently this piece, are ...

For decades, conventional archaeological literature maintained that ancient Mesoamericans floated colossal basalt heads weighing up to fifty tons across river networks on massive balsa rafts.

The Cartesian Diver: this is a classic demo named after the17 th-century philosopher and mathematician René Descartes. Buoyancy is the force that decides whether an object will sink or float, and has ...

Swedish company NoviOcean has tested a third-gen prototype of its combination wind/solar/wave energy platform, a floating platform rated for up to 1 megawatt of consistent clean energy around the ...