Gabrielle continues to strengthen in the central Atlantic and is not expected to make landfall before dissipating by the end of this coming week.

In the field of plastic processing, melt viscosity and melt strength are two critically important yet often confused core parameters. They are like the "blood" and "bones" of the plastic processing process,

After days of struggles through the hostile deep Atlantic – barely holding on most of Thursday as a naked low-level cloud swirl – Gabrielle is staging a comeback today that should take it to hurricane strength before the weekend is out.

Emily Brodsky, professor of Earth and planetary sciences at UC Santa Cruz, has received a $1.1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to study the shear strength of rocks in the Earth’s crust and the conditions in which they break, which ...